Western

WESTERN

The western began as morality plays set in the “Old West”, a mythical golden age for allegories of good versus evil. In the 70s the genre became dated and stale. In the 80s the Western modulated into quasi-social drama, a corrective to racism and violence in Dances With Wolves, Unforgiven and Posse. In the 90s John Carpenter moulded his Vampyres in the tradition of the Western.

What to Watch: Stagecoach (1939), The Magnificent Seven (1960), The Wild Bunch (1969), Once Upon a Time in the West (1969), Dances With Wolves (1990)