{"product_id":"9781496241542-hell-bent-for-leather","title":"Hell-Bent for Leather","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSex and Sexuality in the Weird Western\u003cbr\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55119540683126,"sku":"9781496241542","price":90.03,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_37620683_b7424df2-9196-4469-ae8c-065a46b6bf1e.jpg?v=1762224119","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781496241542-hell-bent-for-leather","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}