THE WESTERN
Along Came Jones--the Coasters
Will Wright, Six-Guns and Society (1975)
list of films
the traditional plot
the “vengeance variation”
the professional plot
the “transition theme”
a summary
Edward Buscombe on the formal visual elements of the Western
Altman on syntax/semantics
William S. Hart, silent film cowboy
TV Westerns of the 1950s
No More Westerns?
The Politics of High Noon
Dodge City as “Progressive” Western
Two views of the “progressive” theme
Richard Slotkin on Stagecoach/outlaws
Is Casablanca Really a Western?