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?