Hell-Bent for Leather

Kerry Fine is an instructor in the Department of English at Arizona State University. Michael K. Johnson is a professor of English at the University of Maine–Farmington. Rebecca M. Lush is a professor in the Literature and Writing Studies Department and is the Faculty Center director at California State University San Marcos. Sara L. Spurgeon is a professor of English and directs the Literature, Social Justice, and Environment Program at Texas Tech University. Fine, Johnson, Lush, and Spurgeon are the coeditors of Weird Westerns: Race, Gender, Genre (Nebraska, 2020).

“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 Masculinities in Literature of the American West

• IntroductionMichael K. Johnson, Rebecca M. Lush, and Sara L. SpurgeonPart 11. The Daddy with No Name: The Kinky Cowboy Aesthetics of The MandalorianJennessa Hester2. Beyond the Virtual Frontier: New Possibilities of Sex and Desire in Black Mirror’s “San Junipero”Katie GoogePart 23. Re-creations and Inescapable Repetitions: Sontag’s “Pornographic Imagination,” Bacigalupi’s The Water Knife, and the Weird WesternMicah Donohue4. Lost Max: Mad Max and the Challenge to Masculine Dominance in 1970s AustraliaScott PearcePart 35. “Touch Your Wound, Dear”: Eye Killers and the Vampire of Manifest DestinyMiriam Brown Spiers6. Qweirding the West: Re-forming the Nation in the Novels of C Pam Zhang and Emma PÉrezAnne Mai Yee Jansen7. Ishmael Reed Takes on the Weird Western in Yellow Back Radio Broke-DownJana KoehlerPart 48. Coming Back to Shane to Redeem the Cyborg in Soldier and LoganElizabeth Abele9. Leatherface Families and Final Grandmas: The Reproductive Rites and Slaughterhouse Sexualities in the New “Old West”Joshua T. Anderson and Rebecca M. Lush10. “What Makes You Worth $100,000?”: Heists, the Commodification of Women, and Capitalism Condemned in The Professionals and Army of the DeadMeredith HarveyPart 511. The Woman in Room 237: Western Domesticity and Oedipal Conflict in The ShiningJeffrey Chisum12. Transgression on the Frontier: The Ludicity of Incest in Bioshock InfiniteChristina Fawcett and Marc A. Ouellette13. Dead Fathers and Monstrous Daughters in The Last of Us IISara Humphreys14. “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 WestSara L. SpurgeonContributorsIndex