Genre
American Western Cinema
The founding American genre — frontier, law, and the violence underwriting settlement. It spent its second half arguing with everything it established in the first.
Four textbook cases
Not the best four — the four that define the shape. Start anywhere.
The Searchers
John Ford · 1956
Unforgiven
Clint Eastwood · 1992
Red River
Howard Hawks · 1948
McCabe & Mrs. Miller
Robert Altman · 1971
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