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Summary:

"Hell-Bent for Leather: Sex and Sexuality in the Weird Western builds on the Locus Award finalist Weird Westerns: Race, Gender, Genre. This new collection takes a deep dive into the myriad ways sex and sexuality are imagined in weird western literature, film, television, and video games, paying special attention to portrayals of power and privilege. The contributors explore weird western challenges to assumptions about varied genders and sexualities, drawing our attention to how the western can reinforce existing gender and sexual paradigms or overturn them in delightful, terrifying, or unexpected ways. Primary texts range from CBS's campy BDSM-inflected steampunk western The Wild Wild West to the Star Wars franchise's popular leather-daddy bounty hunter The Mandalorian, from Ishmael Reed's satirical postmodern western Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down to C Pam Zhang's acclaimed novel How Much of These Hills Is Gold. Chapters engage texts from Australia and Great Britain, classic horror like The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, the popular video games BioShock Infinite and The Last of Us II, and less well-known texts like Laguna Pueblo-Navajo author A. A. Carr's erotic vampire/monster slayer western Eye Killers. "-- [Provided by publisher]

Table of Contents:

• Introduction / Kerry Fine, Michael K. Johnson, Rebecca M. Lush, and Sara L. Spurgeon
• The daddy with no name: the kinky cowboy aesthetics of The Mandalorian / Jennessa Hester
• Beyond the virtual frontier: new possibilities of sex and desire in Black Mirror's "San Junipero" / Katie Googe
• Recreations and inescapable repetitions: Sontag's 'Pornographic imagination,' Bacigalupis' The water knife, and the weird western / Micah Donohue
• Lost Max: Mad Max and the challenge to masculine dominance in 1970s Australia / Scott Pearce
• "Touch your wound, dear": Eye killers and the vampire of Manifest Destiny / Miriam Brown Spiers
• Qweirding the West: re-forming the nation in the novels of C Pam Zhang and Emma Pérez / Anne Mai Yee Jansen
• Ishmael Reed takes on the weird western in Yellow Back Radio Broke-Dow / Jana Koehler
• Coming back to Shane to redeem the cyborg in Soldier and Logan / Elizabeth Abele
• Leatherface families and final grandmas: the reproductive rites and slaughterhouse sexualities in the new "Old West" / Joshua T. Anderson and Rebecca M. Lush
• "What makes you worth $100,000?": heists, the commodification of women, and capitalism condemned in The professionals and Army of the dead / Meredith Harvey
• The woman in room 327: Western domesticity and oedipal conflict in The shining / Jeffrey Chisum
• Transgression on the frontier: the ludicity of incest in Bioshock infinite / Christina Fawcett and Marc Ouellette
• Dead fathers and monstrous daughters in The last of us II / Sara Humphreys
• "Do I bring my own leash, or do I pick one up at the door?": kink, camp, and queer masculinity in CBS's The wild wild West / Sara L. Spurgeon.

Contributors:

Fine, Kerry, 1974- , editor

Johnson, Michael K. (Michael Kyle), 1963- , editor

Lush, Rebecca M. , editor

Spurgeon, Sara L. , editor

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Related Series:

Postwestern horizons

Subjects:

Western stories — History and criticism

Motion pictures — United States — History

Television programs — United States — History

Sex in literature

Gender identity in literature

Sex in motion pictures

Gender identity in motion pictures

Sex on television

Gender identity on television

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 30, 2025).

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Call Numbers:

PS374.W4 H45 2025eb

ISBNs:

9781496241948 (electronic book)
1496241940 (electronic book)
9781496241955 (electronic book)
1496241959 (electronic book)
9781496241542 [Invalid]
1496241541 [Invalid]
9781496241900 [Invalid]
1496241908 [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

1488801334

Other Control Numbers:

EBC31886118 (source: MiAaPQ)
[Unknown Type]: ybp306887979