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Western: a standalone construct

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Film studies

a genre organized around shifting oppositions between wilderness and civilization on the American frontier.

In film studies, Western refers to a genre organized around shifting oppositions between wilderness and civilization on the American frontier. This meaning comes from Kitses (1969) in Horizons West.[1]

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References

  1. Kitses, J. (1969). Horizons West: Anthony Mann, Budd Boetticher, Sam Peckinpah: Studies of authorship within the Western. Thames and Hudson. ISBN 9780500470138

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