Women in the Western

• Author(s): Matheson Sue Matheson,
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Pages: 360
• ISBN_10: 1474444164
  ISBN_13: 9781474444163
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Performing Arts / Film / General , Performing Arts / Film / Direction & Production , Performing Arts / Film / History & Criticism , Performing Arts / Individual Director ,

Description:... In Westerns, women transmit complicated cultural coding about the nature of westward expansionism, heroism, family life, manliness and American femininity. As the genre changes and matures, depictions of women have transitioned from traditional to more modern roles. Frontier Feminine charts these significant shifts in the Western's transmission of gender values and expectations and aims to expand the critical arena in which Western film is situated by acknowledging the importance of women in this genre.