This book examines the Western genre in the period since Westerns
ceased to be a regular feature of Hollywood filmmaking. For most of
the 20th Century, the Western was a major American genre. The
production of Westerns decreased in the 1960s and 1970s; by the
1980s, it was apparent that the genre occupied a less prominent
position in popular culture. After an extended period as one of the
most prolific Hollywood genres, the Western entered its
"afterlife". What does it now mean for a Hollywood movie to be a
Western, and how does this compare to the ways in which the genre
has been understood at other points in its history? This book
considers the conditions in which the Western has found itself
since the 1980s, the latter-day associations that the genre has
acquired and the strategies that more recent Westerns have
developed in response to their changed context.
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