Screening Cowboys. Reading Masculinities in Westerns

Thesis

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Titlepage

Contents

Introduction

Part One Constructing The Cowboy Visually

Chapter One The Variable Nature of the Hero's Image

Chapter Two Tenderfoots, Women, and Boys "See" the Hero with Their Imagination

Chapter Three The Western under Pressure from the Domestic Mystique

Part Two Hold-Up Scenes, Flashbacks, And Father Figures

Chapter Four The Forced Choice Between Telling and Being (Seen)

Chapter Five Historical Reversals from Dead to Hypermasculine Fathers

Part Three The Cowboy'S Missed Encounter With The "Indian

Chapter Seven Whiteness as Wildness

Chapter Eight Hippie Appeal of the "Indian"

Chapter Nine Rewriting German Identities as Blood Brotherhoods

Part Four Anti-Americanist Mediations

Chapter Ten Gallows-humor in European Westerns

Chapter Eleven A "Good Enough" Alternative to the American Dream

Part Five Homosocial And Homosexual Relations

Chapter Twelve A Thin Line between Rivalry and Friendship

Chapter Thirteen Rivalry Suspended by "Friend-Friendship"

Notes

Acknowledgments

Dutch Summary Nederlandse Samenvatting

Filmography

Bibliography

Index

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