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Saloon Culture      Royal Melendy writes about a rising social culture taking place at the turn of the twentieth century. He depicts this culture as the ambiance emitted in early Chicago saloons. “Saloons served many roles for the working-class during this period of American history, and were labeled as the poor man’s social clubs” (summary of saloon culture, pg. 76).      Saloons were described as part of the neighborhood. An institution recognized

Darling Clementine In the Western genre, according to Jim Kitses, anyone is able to understand it as a genre articulating a cultural mythology (Belton 249). In this case, the American psyche. It has been said that the Western represents the myth of the frontier, which meant the unsettled land at the edge of the frontier where land was unlimited and free for any man to claim. This notion dates back to the late nineteenth-century. Accordingly, Hollywood produced more Western films than any other genre

The Western genre can be a variety of works, including texts and films, which are set in the American Old West during the latter half of the nineteenth century. This genre primarily focuses on the life of a cowboy with gunfights, a good guy and a bad guy, and the usually ending of riding off into the sunset. The common misconception that is shown throughout the Western genre is that the male characters are always the hero, whereas the female characters are impediments and less valuable. This relates

semantics and syntactics of an original western film through the common traits, attitudes, characters, shots and locations that attribute to the building blocks of the Western genre. My Darling Clementine also includes syntactic elements that incorporate the genres fundamental grammar and the structure into which building blocks are placed. This can be compared and contrasted with the film Unforgiven which represents the revisionist western. The revisionist western includes a less idealistic and more

Genre Theory and John Ford's Stagecoach The analytic theory posited by Robert Warshow in his essay "The Westerner", itemizes the elements necessary for a film to belong to the genre of the "western". Most contentiously, he mandates that the narrative focus upon the individual hero's plight to assert his identity, and diminishes the importance of secondary characters and issues, or any tendency toward "social drama." (431) He states that it is subtle variations that make successive instances

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

The UK is not a place one thinks of producing westerns. In fact there have only ever been two made entirely on the island that once ruled the world. Blood Moon is one of those, not sure what the other was-sign of poor journalism. On the other hand, wearwolves is something we do associate the English with---Wearwolves of London anyone's?--- This is where Blood Moon falls, a genre mashup for John Wayne/John Landis fan in all of us. Like many westerns, the flick starts out with a stranger (veteran

it. The 235 page text describes how the Anti-Saloon League was determined to make prohibition possible and the struggles they had to overcome. As well as what directly followed once it was a reality. Clark analyzes and critiques Prohibition not as a historical moment, but as a movement. This book is very well researched and a thorough bibliography is

part of the western genre. For example, when we think of a western we immediately picture an open landscape of mountain ranges, rugged lands or vast plains. We see settlers building homesteads or small towns, which often creates a main street where all the small business would be located including a jail and some saloons. Also, I cannot forget about the famous bar and gunfight scenes that will get you to the edge of your seat. The film Stagecoach is a perfect example of a typical western but the film

film genre; for example MGM was one of the first to produce musicals and romances. By the end of the silent era, many of the main genres were established: the melodrama, the western, the horror film, comedies, and action-adventure