{"product_id":"hell-bent-for-leather-sex-and-sexuality-in-the-weird-western-paperback-softback-9781496241900","title":"Hell-Bent for Leather; Sex and Sexuality in the Weird Western (Paperback \/ softback) 9781496241900","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eHell-Bent for Leather\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eSex and Sexuality in the Weird Western\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eKerry Fine (Edited by), Michael K. Johnson (Edited by), Rebecca M. Lush (Edited by), Sara L. Spurgeon (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781496241900\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 1 January 2025\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e380 pages, Index\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.7 cm, 0.572 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e“The project is timely, professionally crafted, and genuinely fun. This book is nicely packed with analysis of weird westerns from the 1960s to the very present, paying attention to diverse representation and experience in sex and sexualities. These are terrific essays that form a rich and nuanced volume that will be welcomed in the scholarly community.”-Lydia R. Cooper, author of \u003ci\u003eMasculinities in Literature of the American West\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eHell-Bent for Leather: Sex and Sexuality in the Weird Western\u003c\/i\u003e builds on the Locus Award finalist \u003ci\u003eWeird Westerns: Race, Gender, Genre\u003c\/i\u003e. 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Primary texts range from CBS’s campy BDSM-inflected steampunk western \u003ci\u003eThe Wild Wild West\u003c\/i\u003e to the Star Wars franchise’s popular leather-daddy bounty hunter \u003ci\u003eThe Mandalorian\u003c\/i\u003e, from Ishmael Reed’s satirical postmodern western \u003ci\u003eYellow Back Radio Broke-Down\u003c\/i\u003e to C Pam Zhang’s acclaimed novel \u003ci\u003eHow Much of These Hills Is Gold\u003c\/i\u003e. Chapters engage texts from Australia and Great Britain, classic horror like \u003ci\u003eThe Texas Chain Saw Massacre\u003c\/i\u003e, the popular video games \u003ci\u003eBioShock Infinit\u003c\/i\u003ee and \u003ci\u003eThe Last of Us II\u003c\/i\u003e, and less well-known texts like Laguna Pueblo–Navajo author A. A. Carr’s erotic vampire\/monster slayer western \u003ci\u003eEye Killers\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e Michael K. Johnson, Rebecca M. Lush, and Sara L. Spurgeon\u003cbr\u003e Part 1\u003cbr\u003e 1. The Daddy with No Name: The Kinky Cowboy Aesthetics of \u003ci\u003eThe Mandalorian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Jennessa Hester\u003cbr\u003e 2. Beyond the Virtual Frontier: New Possibilities of Sex and Desire in \u003ci\u003eBlack Mirror\u003c\/i\u003e’\u003cbr\u003es “\u003cbr\u003eSan Junipero”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Katie Googe\u003cbr\u003e Part 2\u003cbr\u003e 3. Re-creations and Inescapable Repetitions: Sontag’\u003cbr\u003es “\u003cbr\u003ePornographic Imagination,”\u003cbr\u003e Bacigalupi’\u003cbr\u003es \u003ci\u003eThe Water Knife\u003c\/i\u003e, and the Weird Western\u003cbr\u003e Micah Donohue\u003cbr\u003e 4. Lost Max: \u003ci\u003eMad Max\u003c\/i\u003e and the Challenge to Masculine Dominance in 1970s Australia\u003cbr\u003e Scott Pearce\u003cbr\u003e Part 3\u003cbr\u003e 5. “\u003cbr\u003eTouch Your Wound, Dear”\u003cbr\u003e: \u003ci\u003eEye Killers\u003c\/i\u003e and the Vampire of Manifest Destiny\u003cbr\u003e Miriam Brown Spiers\u003cbr\u003e 6. Qweirding the West: Re-forming the Nation in the Novels of C Pam Zhang and Emma PÉ\u003cbr\u003erez\u003cbr\u003e Anne Mai Yee Jansen\u003cbr\u003e 7. Ishmael Reed Takes on the Weird Western in \u003ci\u003eYellow Back Radio Broke-Down\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Jana Koehler\u003cbr\u003e Part 4\u003cbr\u003e 8. Coming Back to \u003ci\u003eShane\u003c\/i\u003e to Redeem the Cyborg in \u003ci\u003eSoldier\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eLogan\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Elizabeth Abele\u003cbr\u003e 9. Leatherface Families and Final Grandmas: The Reproductive Rites and Slaughterhouse Sexualities in the New “\u003cbr\u003eOld West”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Joshua T. Anderson and Rebecca M. Lush\u003cbr\u003e 10. “\u003cbr\u003eWhat Makes You Worth $100,000?”\u003cbr\u003e: Heists, the Commodification of Women, and Capitalism Condemned in \u003ci\u003eThe Professionals\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eArmy of the Dead\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Meredith Harvey\u003cbr\u003e Part 5\u003cbr\u003e 11. The Woman in Room 237: Western Domesticity and Oedipal Conflict in \u003ci\u003eThe Shining\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Jeffrey Chisum\u003cbr\u003e 12. Transgression on the Frontier: The Ludicity of Incest in \u003ci\u003eBioshock Infinite\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Christina Fawcett and Marc A. Ouellette\u003cbr\u003e 13. Dead Fathers and Monstrous Daughters in \u003ci\u003eThe Last of Us II\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Sara Humphreys\u003cbr\u003e 14. “\u003cbr\u003eDo I Bring My Own Leash, or Do I Pick One Up at the Door?”\u003cbr\u003e: Kink, Camp, and Queer Masculinity in CBS’\u003cbr\u003es \u003ci\u003eThe Wild Wild West\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Sara L. 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