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		The western landscape that is supposed to be a test of character, bringing out the best in the hero and the worst in the villain, is emptied of its sacred qualities, becoming instead a fully defiled, profaned space.
		And unlike Westerns that depict the region as a prelapsarian garden and space of retreat for the American hero, McCarthy's text features an anti-Edenic landscape whose ownership is violently contested and overturned by the group of mercenaries.
		While his first Western is usually thought to have helped propel the genre in new directions, opening up the form to new visions, it is similar to the Border Trilogy in having it both ways, offering a critique that nevertheless enables more western myths to follow.
	faculty.gvsu.edu /royerd/courses/495/western.htm (10543 words)

	2blowhards.com: Guest Posting -- Tim Hulsey on Western Novels
		I'd tend to define the subgenre of Western primarily by theme and setting -- although in the case of a Western, the two are so closely related as to make their separation more useful for critics than readers.
		It is a situation in which, Western writers usually claim, human nature is revealed in its barest form; it is certainly a situation in which governmental intrusion is minimized (the Law being either absent or ineffective), and individuals must thus resolve conflicts on their own.
		Westerns are more frequently studied in the West as fodder for "cultural studies," but still not read as often as I think they should be.
	www.2blowhards.com /archives/000653.html (874 words)

	Spaghetti Western Summary
		Spaghetti Westerns is a nickname for a broad sub-genre of Western film that emerged in the mid-1960s, so named because most of them were produced by Italian studios.
		Spaghetti westerns are known as "macaroni westerns" in Japan.
		The German Westerns of the 1960s, which were successful in Europe before the Italian Westerns, were made after novels by Karl May and mostly filmed in former Yugoslavia.
	www.bookrags.com /Spaghetti_Western (1028 words)

	DANCES WITH WOLVES
		However, what he left with audiences in WOLVES is a classic revisionist western that spawned a mini-resurgence of the genre as a whole.
		The western, amazingly, lost much of its appeal in the more cynical, nihilistic, and capitalistic decade that was the 1980’s.
		Yet, WOLVES is not the complete revisionist western in the sense that at least one tribe is generalized as a barbaric enemy, but in this instance both to the white man and native society.
	www.craigerscinemacorner.com /Reviews/dances_with_wolves.htm (2923 words)

	American Cowboy magazine / 100 Years of Western Films
		By the 1990s, thematically, the Western was all over the map, and its major actors and directors were retired or dead.
		New, revisionist Westerns for the first time offered strong roles for women and people of color, telling the Western story from the Native American perspective, and showing a heightened concern for the environment.
		In 1992 the resurgence of the Western and the primacy of the revisionist Western began, with the release of Dances With Wolves, produced and directed by Kevin Costner.
	www.americancowboy.com /nd03/film/100years_film_nd03.shtml (1915 words)

	The Fedora Chronicles Flicks: Violet Phoenix's Film Essays
		In the Encyclopedia of Westerns Shane is referred to as being “considered by many to be the greatest Western ever made” and as a Western, “it goes directly to the legend [of the West]” (Fagen, 2003 pp.
		Shane was produced during the Westerns Classic period (hence why it is called a “Classic” by all authors cited in the previous section) and was produced by Paramount Pictures whereas Blazing Saddles was produced in the Revisionist Period and was produced by Warner Bros (Fagen, 2003 pp.
		Westerns however are different in the way they approach gender representation and the male gaze because Westerns are a genre driven by action, about struggle and conflict between individual men and groups of men (Neale, 2000 p.
	thefedorachronicles.com /flicks/minazzo/westers_shane_saddles.html (3243 words)

	Independent Online Edition > Features (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		As just such a stretching transposition of the Western genre, The Proposition is peerless: beautifully shot by Benoit Delhomme, this is the first film I've seen in many years which does real justice to the savage light quality and the particular tyranny of distance implicit in the Australian outback.
		Watching The Proposition, it's difficult not to see it as a "revisionist" Western, doing the equivalent thing for the Australian canon, which Peckinpah, and then Arthur Penn and Clint Eastwood, did for the American.
		It may be a mistake to overstate the significance of the ban; were it not to have been enacted it seems quite conceivable that self-censorship alone would have prevented the growth of an Australian western genre.
	enjoyment.independent.co.uk /film/features/article348626.ece (1266 words)

	EJP \| News \| Iran hosts revisionists at disputed Holocaust meet
		Some of the most notorious Westerners who have downplayed the scale of the Holocaust were attending the event, including French professor Robert Faurisson and German-born Australian Fredrick Toeben.
		The Islamic republic insists that it is well positioned to hold a conference on the Holocaust and angrily rejects charges of anti-Semitism, pointing to the continued existence in Iran of a community of 25,000 Jews.
		David Irving, a British revisionist who is playing down Hitler’s role, was jailed by a Vienna court for three years in February for denying the Holocaust.
	www.ejpress.org /article/12182 (863 words)

	J.W. Miller: Review of Stevens, The Word Rides Again
		Like any well-used genre, the western has generated its share of archetypal characters, plots, and themes: the silent gunslinger, the evil oil baron, the lone man against a gang of ruffians, and so on.
		Stevens is well-versed in all these conventions; indeed, the stereotypes of western fiction, and especially the standard traits of western heroes, provide the core of The Word Rides Again.
		Certainly the ideas of racism and sexism in the western novel are not new, and Stevens is not the only critic to pursue them.
	rmmla.wsu.edu /ereview/58.1/reviews/miller.asp (682 words)

	Old West far more complex than depicted in legends
		But a legend was born that became the stuff of a half-dozen Western movies and even a ''Star Trek'' episode.
		Legends aside, the actual Old West was far more complex, said revisionist Western historian Patricia Limerick of the University of Colorado at Boulder.
		Legendary Western cattle drives - celebrated in popular novels such as James Michener's ''Centennial,'' which traces the development of Colorado in general and Greeley in particular - started shortly after the end of the American Civil War in 1865.
	lubbockonline.com /news/012697/oldwest.htm (851 words)

	Westerns Films
		The Golden Age of the B Western, with low-budget, B-picture horse operas, was coming to an end.
		The Civil War western story with a twist-ending, about an innocent man who seemed to escape from death by a hangman's noose, became well-known when shown to a large American audience as an edited and narrated episode (the final episode!) of Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone television show in 1964.
		To combat the decline of the film western, wide-screen frontier epics in the 50s and early 60s appeared, emphasizing the western frontier and expansion.
	www.filmsite.org /westernfilms4.html (1634 words)

	Jedi Council Forums - Western Movies: Now Discussing: "Tumbleweeds" (1925)
		The film features now typical western themes including the bandits beating up the telegraph operator, the operator's daughter discovering her father, the operator's recruitment of a dance hall posse, the bandits being pursued, and the bandits splitting up the booty and having a final shoot-out.
		The Western elements are often overstated, though, at least in terms of the setting.
		I would class it as a western, or at least western-romance, as the first half of the film seemed, to me, to be setting out to deliberately subvert the squeaky-clean Malboro-style image of cowboys in the hillside.
	boards.theforce.net /the_amphitheatre/b10382/23716428/p1/?156 (2013 words)

	clevescene.com - Movies - The Bad Seeds
		Nick Cave pens a new breed of revisionist western.
		Trotted out like ol' Trigger whenever there's a movie with saddles and six-shooters, the term "revisionist western" would surely be a cliché, if there were enough westerns to warrant its use more than every few years.
		Written by goth-punk rocker Nick Cave in the spirit of Sam Peckinpah, The Proposition, set in the Australian outback of the 1880s, is a revisionist western of the nihilist variety: The title refers to a burned-out lawman's pathetic offer to an outlaw: Kill your older brother, and I'll spare your younger one.
	www.clevescene.com /Issues/2006-06-07/film/film3.html (695 words)

	"Horizons West: Directing the Western from John Ford to Clint Eastwood" by Saige Walton
		In 1969, Kitses found the thematic resonance of the Western in the historical and geographic establishment of the American frontier, where films were usually set between the years of 1865-1890 and the generic conflict could be distilled to that of civilisation versus the wilderness (3).
		He begrudgingly acknowledges the importance of Unforgiven (1992) as a revisionist Western in which an aged gunslinger must come to terms with his own violence but claims that, unlike Peckinpah, there is “no attempt to implicate the audience in an edgy awareness” of that violence (p.
		Also, there are a number of commercially successful Westerns that altered the historical development of the genre (shifting the frontier to Mexico, introducing group protagonists, bounty hunters and an increasing cynicism towards the very community that the gunslinger had traditionally fought for) and these are dealt with only in passing.
	www.sensesofcinema.com /contents/books/06/38/horizons_west.html (1865 words)

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	erasing clouds (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Ultimately, he builds a convincing argument that Unforgiven may not be a revisionist western, as most critics have claimed.
		The author starts by exploring the western genre from its decline in the '60s and '70s and the emergence of revisionist films like Robert Altman's Buffalo Bill and the Indians (1976) to its return to award-winning prestige with Kevin Costner's opus Dances with Wolves (1990).
		For example, he points out that women are often marginalized in westerns but in Unforgiven it is their desire for justice that propels the action of the movie.
	www.erasingclouds.com /0907unforgiven.html (385 words)

	Revisionist Western - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		1956's The Searchers starred John Wayne, the typical Western movie hero in what would appear on the surface to be a standard "Cowboys and Indians" conflict.
		Eastwood's later Unforgiven (1992) dramatically criticized the typical Western use of violence to promote false ideals of manhood and to subjugate women and minorities.
		Foreign markets, which had imported the Western since their silent film inception, began creating their own Westerns early on.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Revisionist_Western (536 words)

	Rosewood. (movie reviews).
		Singleton answers the challenge of his material by casting this true and horrific tale in the mold of the Hollywood revisionist Western, with its lone, gunslinging hero "aimin' to settle down" in a prosperous little town in need of his talents and abilities.
		This Western is revisionist because the hero is fl; the cultural focus is on African America; the scene is the South in the 1920s; and the issue is lynching and mass murder.
		Rosewood is based on the terrible, historically-repressed events that took place in the small, thriving fl town of that name, located on the edge of the Florida cypress swamps.
	www.lib.berkeley.edu /MRC/rosewood.html (2066 words)

	Amore, piombo e furore (1978) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		It is a horrible western made even worse by the condition of the print they used to make the DVD, but it does feature one of the most intense cat-fights in cinema history.
		The print for "China 9" is a bit better but suffers from a poor "pan and scan" full-screen treatment and weak audio tracks.
		Testi (the best of a long line of English-challenged pretty-boy European actors who worked in the western genre in the 60's and 70's) is hired by the railroad to kill Oates.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0077327 (789 words)

	Iran hosts forum to question Holocaust
		Iran has defied an international outcry as it held a conference that questioned the truth of the Holocaust and was attended by a number of controversial Western "revisionist" historians.
		Some of the most notorious Western figures who have downplayed the scale of the Holocaust were attending the event, including French professor Robert Faurisson and German-born Australian Fredrick Toeben.
		David Irving, a British "revisionist" who attempted to argue that the toll was greatly exaggerated and to play down Hitler's role, was jailed by a Vienna court for three years in February for denying the Holocaust.
	www.turkishpress.com /news.asp?id=154961 (782 words)

	The Daily Mail - Daily News from Pakistan - Newspaper from Pakistan
		TEHRAN—Iran has defied an international outcry as it held a conference that questioned the truth of the Holocaust and was attended by number of controversial Western “revisionist” historians.
		Other participants at the “Study of the Holocaust: A Global Perspective” included other Western “revisionists” along with Iranian “experts” and members of an anti-Zionist Jewish ultra-Orthodox sect which rejects the existence of Israel.
		The conference is the latest brush with controversy for the Islamic republic, which is already facing UN sanctions for failing to agree to halt sensitive nuclear work.
	dailymailnews.com /200612/12/news/dmheadlinepage10.html (612 words)

	The Question Corral
		He was most active in the 1950s (mainly in westerns), but he has appeared in various movies and television shows through the years (including 1994's Lightning Jack).
		They are very common in old movie westerns, but so are buscadero (looped belt) gun rigs--which were a later development.
		While not the first western, it definitely was the most famous early movie with a western story.
	www.wildwestweb.net /answers.html (3839 words)

	The Searchers
		This Western represents the 12th pairing of John Ford and John Wayne, and it displays the exceptional and seasoned skills of both director and actor.
		The Searchers is another of Ford's Monument Valley Westerns, the one in which he uses this hauntingly beautiful landscape to its fullest effect.
		Many have contended that, along with other postwar revisionist Westerns, The Searchers rewrites the Western genre in response to the ideological struggles of the fifties.
	www.couchcowboy.com /Classics/searchers.htm (1303 words)

	Whose home on the range? Finding room for Native Americans, African Americans, and Latino Americans in the revisionist ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		In 1939, John Ford, the master auteur of the Western film, directed two films with significantly different endings.
		These outlaws, expelled from a fledgling U.S., head off to Mexico, fleeing a country that has become too respectable, uptight and prudish to tolerate the different and the dangerous, a country no longer hospitable to a man with a pistol or a woman with a past.
		Exclusion from America, at least the vision of America presented in the Hollywood Western, has been the traditional fate of Native Americans, African Americans, and Latino Americans.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m2278/is_n2_v22/ai_20175893 (712 words)

	Western (genre) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Early Westerns were mostly filmed in the studio like other early Hollywood movies, but when location shooting became more common, producers of Westerns used desolate corners of New Mexico, California, Arizona, Utah, Nevada, Kansas, Texas, Colorado or Wyoming, often making the landscape not just a vivid backdrop, but a character in the movie.
		It should also be noted that Kurosawa himself was heavily influenced from American Westerns, especially the works of John Ford (Senses of Cinema).
		This audio file was created from an article revision dated 2006-05-22, and may not reflect subsequent edits to the article.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Western_(genre) (2189 words)

	Revisionist Western (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Eastwood turns in his typical performance: This gives the old saying, "painting the town red," a whole new meaning.Eastwood is portraying a gunman wreaking vengeance on an entire Western town for standing by while a gang of nasties brutally kills the sheriff.
		While it is part of his Spaghetti Western Trilogy(all three films have different characters and plots), the film stands on its own and really shows you how good a movie can really...
		Just like another reviewer here mentioned- when I was a little kid, westerns never interested me, and growing up through my teenage years, it just seemed like a boring...
	dvd.mysic.ca /Revisionist+Western (1490 words)

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