Tuesday, 5 February 2019

Western genre


western genre (late 1800s)

- use of close ups/ extreme close ups
- gun at waist shots
- silences/winds (no non-diegetic music in NCFOM)
- horses
- dessert/small towns/bar (saloon)
- sheriff
- whiskey
- trains/carts
- native american's
- cowboy hats/boots
- riding off into distance/sunset (lone rider) save town then leave (continuation of journey)


 Ideology and spectatorship:

 hero- never wants to accept civilisation, as embodied by the woman, who brings notions of community/family. he is always desiring to be on the move in Wild West. the cowboy is the embodiment of frontiersman-ship (doesn't want to live in civilisation).
cowboy also ways represented as being caught between 2 values- ideological contradictions in myth of frontiersman-ship- nations ambiguous attitudes to the west- civilising the west meant giving up the freedom it represented/freedom of the individual. (Hayward)
one might look at NCFOM and consider how it subverts expectations of Westerns. the expectations of watching Coen Brothers films also.

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