Tag: Evolution of the Western
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The evolution of the western: Part 3 – The Last Man Standing
In the final entry in our three-part series on the western, we look take a look at the last twenty years of gunslingers in the US and abroad. From Kevin Costner to Takashi Miike, the western has been elevated to epic proportions – even when it isn’t being a western at all.
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The evolution of the western: Part 2 – The Man with No Name
In The Evolution of the Western – Part 1: The Last Gunslingers, we discussed the changing nature of the cowboy over the first half of the 20th century. From the earliest days of cinema through to John Ford’s The Searchers (1954), the gunslinger turned from hero of legend to “a figure of pathos, not tragedy”…
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The evolution of the western: Part 1 – the last gunslingers
With the release of the Coen Brothers’ True Grit, a remake of Henry Hathaway’s 1969 John Wayne late-vehicle, the American western has been brought back into focus. Set to become the second highest grossing western of all time, behind Kevin Costner’s revisionist western Dances with Wolves, True Grit may be just the blockbuster the genre…
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