Western (genre)
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
Eight unusual westerns (a list by Sholem Stein):
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The Western is an American 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 the American Old West), but also in Western Canada and Mexico. Closely related to the Western is gaucho literature of Argentina and tales of the European settlement of the Australian Outback, and also, the Charro or "rural" film genre in Mexico (see Golden Age of Mexican cinema). In film, the genre was most popular from the 1930s and into the 1960s, but the number of Westerns made since that time has declined significantly.
See also
See also
- American Old West
- American West
- Dime Western
- Frederic Remington
- Charles Russell
- Earl W. Bascom
- Golden Boot Awards
- History of United States continental expansion
- List of film genres
- List of Western fiction authors
- List of Western films
- TV Western
- Movie ranches
- Northern (genre)
- Owen Wister
- List of Western computer and video games
- Western Writers of America
- Science fiction Western
- Space Western