Edinburgh University Press Women in the Western

As the Western matured, women’s roles became more complex and modern – transmitting a subtle cultural coding about the nature of westward expansionism, heroism, family life, manliness and American femininity. In Women in the Western, a range of international scholars explores the changing roles of women in the genre through case studies of classic films like Broken Arrow (1950) and The Searchers (1956), and contemporary films and TV series like Wind River (2017) and Justified (2010–15). Considering traditional and intertextual representations of women in the Western, the book charts the significant shifts in Hollywood’s transmission of gender values and expectations. Notes on Contributors: David Blanke, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, USA. Maria Cecilia de Miranda Nogueira Coelho, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais in Brazil, Brazil. Stella Hockenhull, University of Wolverhampton, UK. Martin Holtz, Greifswald University, Germany. David Huxley, editor of The Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics (Routledge). J Paul Johnson, Winona State University in Minnesota, USA. Kelly MacPhail, University of Minnesota Duluth, USA. Sue Matheson, University College of the North in Manitoba, Canada. Camille McCutcheon, Librarian and Assistant Dean and Coordinator of Collection Management, University of South Carolina Upstate Library, USA. Cynthia J. Miller, cultural anthropologist specializing in visual media, Institute for Liberal Arts at Emerson College, UK. Christopher Minz, Georgia State University, USA. Erin Lee Mock, University of West Georgia, USA. Frances Pheasant-Kelly, University of Wolverhampton, UK. Vincent Piturro, Metropolitan State University of Denver, USA. Robert Spindler, University of Innsbruck, Austria. Gaylyn Studlar, Washington University in St. Louis, USA. Martin M. Winkler, George Mason University, USA. Paul Zinder, University of Gloucestershire, UK.