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. Explores how the western can reinforce existing gender and sexual paradigms or overturn them in delightful, terrifying, or unexpected ways.
This edited collection explores the role of sex and sexuality in the genre known as the weird western—a popular hybrid form that mixes western themes, iconography, settings, or conventions with elements drawn from horror, fantasy, supernatural, or science fiction genres.