Table of Contents

• He Was Some Kind of a Man: Masculinities in the B Western by Roderick McGillis
• Preface
• 1: Introduction: Ride the High Country or ""They Went Thataway""
• 2: Cowboy Codes: Straight and Pure and All Boy
• 3: When We were Young: Nostalgia and the Cowboy Hero
• 4: Arms and the Man: The Friendly Gun
• 5: Give Me My Boots and Saddles: Camp Cowboy
• 6: Tall in the Saddle: Romance on the Range
• 7: White Hats and White Heroes: Who Is That Other Guy?
• 8: Virgin Land: Landscape, Nature, and Masculinity
• 9: Corporate Cowboys and the Shaping of a Nation
• Postscript: The Frontiersman (1938)
• List of Films Mentioned
• References
• Index

About the Author

Roderick McGillis is a professor of English at the University of Calgary. He is the author of the award-winning The Nimble Reader (1996), A Little Princess: Gender and Empire (1996), and Les Pieds Devant (2007), and the editor of George MacDonald: Literary Heritage and Heirs (2007). He is a former editor of The Children's Literature Association Quarterly, and former president of the Children's Literature Association.

Reviews

"McGillis' love of the cowboy film, indeed the overwhelming importance of the genre for his childhood identity, is evident throughout the book, which is full of personal anecdotes and nostalgic recollections...He is most effective when discussing masculinity and boyhood and he analyses costume in the B Western well." Paul Sutton (Roehampton University), Times Higher Education, 19 November 2009 'A fascinating study of part of the wider genre that wise pardners would be quick to get out of the saddle and check out. Yee-haw.' -- Screentrade Feb 2010