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Western Films
Research Paper # 13851
Western Films
Examines evolution of genre, major directors & works. Looks at the portrayal of the frontier, cultural significance, themes, characters, violence and morality.
3,375 words (approx. 13.5 pages) |
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1999
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" INTRODUCTIONThe frontier held an important place in American history, both in its reality and as a heroic image that would outlast the frontier itself. The idea of the frontier helped shape the American character. The frontier became a place to which settlers journeyed and a place they had to tame. This created a certain ambivalence in how the frontier was viewed. On the one hand, the frontier was natural and so somehow ideal, celebrated as such by James Fenimore Cooper in the Leatherstocking Tales. On the other hand, the frontier was something to be challenged and beaten. These tensions have been apparent in the popular image of the Wild West, and as a film genre, the Western has developed around this conflict and has shown the frontier both as a place of savagery and a place of beauty, the West as a place to.."
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Western Films (2012, January 15). Retrieved February 11, 2012, from http://www.academon.com/Research-Paper-Western-Films/13851
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"Western Films" 15 January 2012. Web. 11 Feb. 2012. <http://www.academon.com/Research-Paper-Western-Films/13851>
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