FILM 321 - Film Genres: Westerns

5 credit hours

A study of the Western as one of the most dominant of genres in American cinema, with analyses of its assumptions about the world it presents and its role in creating the myth of “The American West,” both among Americans and in the rest of the world. Films to be studied include such works as Stagecoach, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence, Shane, The Searchers, Lonely Are the Brave, Once upon a Time in the West, and Unforgiven. GN