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has become more important to Hollywood in a culture-driven industry fueled by formulas. As a film genre nothing was so adaptable towards American sensibilities as the Western. Set in the nineteenth century where a large section of the United States was still undiscovered; it is known as the Wild West. The central plot of a western film is the classic goal of maintaining law and order on the frontier in an action, adventure story. Directors would maintain this melodramatic formula by using archetypal

In the western Unforgiven staring Clint Eastwood we embark the journey of a legendary gunslinger coming out of retirement in order to provide for the one’s he loves and holds dears to his heart, his kids. Throughout the film the idea of killing and the justification of doing so is continuously questioned in the minds of each of our three gunslingers. As in all westerns the use of violence is displayed to solve and extinguish any conflicts that arise. Violence is incorporated within this film in order

societal views of masculinity in the Western genre. Brokeback Mountain depicts two cowboys involved in a homosexual relationship, focusing on coupling the opposing themes of homosexuality and masculinity. On the other hand, Blood Meridian introduces the reader to the Kid, who courageously establishes his own masculinity outside of the Judge’s hypermasculine and traditional Western philosophy. Brokeback Mountain and Blood Meridian are both classified as Westerns. The Western is a beloved American genre that

In the movie Unforgiven, it displays the rocky journey of William Munny with where he starts and finishes as the killer of women and children. During his marriage and a bit after the death of his wife, William Munny went through a rebirth and let go of his memories of the past in order to be not only a good husband but a father to his two children. His journey starts when the Schofield kid asks William to join him in killing two men that cut up a woman’s face for the reward of $500 each; between

Directed by Christopher Nolan, The Dark Knight is not a film normally considered a member of the western genre by any means. The western genre is meant to captivate a viewer with action on the frontier of the ol’ west. From bank robberies to mining towns wanted for land, the western brought many new film plots and characteristics to the big screen. The main appeal of westerns started dying off in the late 1900s but that has not stopped modern day film makers from producing them. Films such as

states, “because Western communities lack established legal and social institutions to restrain and punish criminal, anti-social, deviant behavior” (LP 51), outlaws and lawmen became the special groups of the American frontier. In the end of 19th century, with the expansion of the west territory, due to “White migration to Indian Territory”(LP 48) and high economic profits of the western states (LP 49), the growth of population and economy induced western lawlessness problem. Western Communities lacked

Western Essay Alannah Jones When you think about film genre, you may ask yourself questions such as, how has it evolved over time? Why has it evolved over time? How has it shaped popular culture? Film, regardless of the genre, consists of elements, in which makes it a film. In a western genre, you may look for elements such as costumes, effects/editing, and narrative. What about these elements makes them important in a Western film? In the film industry, costumes are an important element. Not only

There is a hierarchy amongst the characters in Stagecoach. Each have a form of speaking that stylistically changes as a response to the relationships they have with one another. One striking scene that actually outlines the hierarchy amongst the characters is at the Dry Fork Station where the travelers are sitting down at a dining table. At first, Ms. Mallory is sitting at one end of the table when Gatewood sits two chairs down from her right and Ringo offers a chair to Dallas right next to Ms. Mallory’s

Tall T, though produced in 1957, is representative of the great mass of simplistic, histrionic films which constituted the majority of the Western genre output during the 1920s through the 1950s; the film is perhaps even an exemplar of the subgenre, as director Budd Boetticher most likely drew upon the most typical of the accumulated conventions of the B-Western for inspiration. Yet the final product does not transcend the subgenre

a mixture of genres such as the Spaghetti Western, the teenage romance, and the vampire genre. The clash of genres in this film brings out the idea of hybridity and duality, with the sounds and cinematography creating a sense of ambiguity, or the ‘in-between’. The underlying mix brings out a sense of horror for the overall feel of the film as it leaves audiences with a sense of fear and realisation that not everything is as it seems. The spaghetti western genre is a part of the mix of genres which