Gunfighter

and how the movie molds the human experiences and social relationships. Many historians like Richard Slotkin believe that all these aspects are what make up old western movies. These aspects will be supported with information from Slotkin’s book “Gunfighter Nation”, Will Wright’s book “The Wild West: The Mythical Cowboy and Social Theory”, John White’s book “Westerns”, and Jane Tompkin’s book “West of Everything, The Inner life of Westerns” and various films which consist of William A. Wellman “The

The land is bare, an empty terrain sparsely populated with grass and shrubs. The sounds of hooves and galloping fill the air. Soon, cowboys and their horses ride into the scene towards the viewer with triumphant music permeating the background. A cloud of dust follows their movement through the desert-like landscape. The sun beating down as the cowboys file in a straight line into a camp, two by two, resting their guns on their thighs. The screen pans out and we are transported to a small town where

Geographically, the Wild West refers to the vast, newly settled, and lawless territories of the United States in the old, battling days. Chronically, the Western Frontier is the period of westward expansion in American 19th century history. However, the legendary stories of the Old West signify more than basic words on a history page, and the nature of the Wild West symbolizes more than simple images on a flat map. The immortal myth has ingrained in people 's mind the vision of the eccentric Western

“The Gunfighter” is a short film directed by Eric Kissack and was released in 2014. It is set in a western saloon and begins with “the gunfighter” walking in. A narrator, which can be heard by all the characters, begins to speak. The narrator tells everyone’s darkest secrets, beginning with the fact that two brothers want to kill the gunfighter for a bounty. This all leads to a lot of confusion and eventually a gunfight killing everybody in the saloon. It is evident from the film that there are

revenge. Eastwood does not incorporate one threat into his film, but he builds one threat off the other to create a more interesting story. After William Munny was sought out to kill the cowboys for disfiguring Delilah, he loses a fellow retired gunfighter and accomplice in the process, Ned Logan. Not only was Delilah threatened by the cowboys for abusing her, but William Munny was also threatened by Sherriff Little Bill Dagget for killing his best friend. Although there are threats in Unforgiven

The southwest is a region of the United States that makes our country unique. Without the southwest, we would undoubtedly lack the spirit, hope, beauty, and truth that this vast region brings to the rest of the United States as a whole. The southwest represents many things, such as journeying, racism, violence, the clashing and cooperation of cultures, and spirituality, as well as primitivism and pastoralism. All of these elements that the Southwest is comprised of is perhaps the reason why the rest

the stereotypical timid housewife, women in the West were given room to create new identities. In the movie Duel in the Sun (1946), Pearl engages in a shootout in the desert with a man. While in the movie The Outlaw (1943), Rio McDonald ambushes gunfighters in order to avenge her brother’s death. Although women often stood in the shadows of their more rugged male counterparts, these movies and characters proved that women were just as “rugged” as men, shocking the world with their ruthless behavior

The Talon & Chantry is a series of novels by renowned Westerns writer Louis L'Amour. The Talon & Chantry series of novels has eight novels the first of which was North to the Rails that was first published in 1971. The first novel in the series was so popular that the author decided to write seven more titles in the series culminating in Milo Talon published in 1981. Although the novels are generally known as the Talon & Chantry books they are also known separately as The Talon Books or the Chantry

The Good, The Bad And The Ugly A genre in a film uses familiar story formulas, character types, settings and all of which lead viewers to have a certain perception about what the movie will be like before actually watching it (Goodykoontz, B., & Jacobs, 2014). In many instances, genres produce an explanation of the film. Evidently, this paper focuses on westerns as the main theme; this movie depicts notions of molarity tales, ironic tales and describes the notion of a classical look of the old western

I would consider the ‘Walking Dead’ a western but more of a modernized Sci-Fi type of western. In the article by Massik, Solomon “The Walking Dead, Westerns, and the New Westerns” it describes how the ‘Walking Dead’ is a western because of the guns, violence and the lawless frontier. I agree with this because that’s how I imagine most westerns be with people with guns and they were allowed to use them more freely than what they are now. Western males always had guns at hand just like in the ‘Walking