Over the course of the twentieth century, the cultural significance of the Western has overwhelmed the borders of a simple film genre. The Western film's many incarnations remain the most obvious and popular frame for the mythos of the American...

The Western is a fiction genre seen in film, television, radio, literature, painting and other visual arts. Westerns are devoted to telling stories set primarily in the later half of the 19th century in what became the Western United States (known as...

Westerns: Aspects of a Movie Genre Philip French (2005) Manchester: Carcanet Press, 240 pp., ISBN 1857547470 (pbk), $39.95 French's Westerns: Aspects of a Movie Genre (1973) was more focused on trends within the genre as a whole rather than the films of major...

Abstract This paper examines the way alcohol use and alcoholism have been portrayed in twentieth century films with particular emphasis on the western genre. Saloons, bar fights, whiskey bottles, drunken gunfighters, and town drunks are all the staple features of the genre,...

Democracy: We don't know if last week's shooting of a U.S. analyst was a Russian hit job, but we know critics are being picked off as President Vladimir Putin cleans house ahead of a transition. He is going to go too far.Thirteen journalists have been...

Gonzaga had an awful night shooting free throws until it mattered most.After making just half their foul shots for most of the game, the 14th-ranked Bulldogs made their last eight to hold off Western Kentucky 74-71 in the first round of the Carrs/Safeway Great Alaska...