Television Westerns are a subgenre of the Western. A prime example of comedy Western includes The Paleface (1948), which makes a satirical effort to "send up Owen Wister's novel The Virginian and all the cliches of the Western from the fearless hero to the final shootout on Main Street." House Peters, Jr. Hal Price. While many of these mash-ups (e.g., Billy Jack (1971) and its sequel The Trial of Billy Jack (1974)) are cheap exploitation films, others are more serious dramas such as the Kung Fu TV series, which ran from 1972 to 1975. This is shown in Sam Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch (1969). Edward Peil. [citation needed], Stephen King's The Dark Tower is a series of seven books that meshes themes of Westerns, high fantasy, science fiction, and horror. [8] Most of the characteristics of Western films were part of 19th-century popular western fiction, and were firmly in place before film became a popular art form. A discussion on how to create a story starting from words to art. Western stock characters, such as "cowboys and Indians", were also replaced by Caucasian stock characters, such as bandits and harems. Hart. [citation needed], Often, the vast landscape becomes more than a vivid backdrop; it becomes a character in the film. [40] Veteran American actors Charles Bronson, Lee Van Cleef, and Clint Eastwood[40] became famous by starring in spaghetti Westerns, although the films also provided a showcase for other noted actors, such as James Coburn, Henry Fonda, Rod Steiger, Klaus Kinski, and Jason Robards. India Art Fair is the leading platform to discover modern and contemporary art from South Asia, returning from 3 - 6 February 2022 to New Delhi Longmire is a Western series that centered on Walt Longmire, a sheriff in fictional Absaroka County, Wyoming. After the early 1960s, many American filmmakers began to question and change many traditional elements of Westerns, and to make revisionist Westerns that encouraged audiences to question the simple hero-versus-villain dualism and the morality of using violence to test one's character or to prove oneself right. Florida Westerns, also known as cracker Westerns, are set in Florida during the Second Seminole War. One example of a Euro-Western is the Anglo-Spanish film The Savage Guns (1961). Generally these took two forms: either straight Westerns shot in the Eastern Bloc, or action films involving the Russian Revolution and civil war and the Basmachi rebellion. John Jakes's Six Gun Planet takes place on a future planet colonized by people consciously seeking to recreate the Old West (with cowboys riding robot horses...) [1][permanent dead link]. For example, the Dollars Trilogy itself has much different tropes compared to standard Westerns, demythologizing the Sheriff figure (in A Fistful of Dollars and For a Few Dollars More), putting both the Union and the Confederacy in ambiguously moral positions (The Good, the Bad and the Ugly), and not featuring Native Americans (except for a brief mention in A Fistful of Dollars). Wheeler Oakman. For the most part, they still take place in the American West and reveal the progression of the Old West mentality into the late 20th and early 21st centuries. The second is characters searching for justice. I also ask any of the website visitors that have more info on these great supporting players to send me an e-mail, and I'll be glad to include that in the mini-biographies. [citation needed], In many of Robert A. Heinlein's books, the settlement of other planets is depicted in ways explicitly modeled on American settlement of the West. 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