The Western Genre

Use the examples below and your own research to summarise the key conventions of the Western genre. CONVENTIONS Characters : Hero /Villain Sheriff/ Cowboy/Gunfighter Narrative : shootout/ conflict resolves the story Themes : good v evil past v present law and order v chaos and criminality Film form Setting : landscape Props and Costumes - Revisionist westerns of the 1970s- 1990s became more concerned with changing pur understanding of the tradiitional good v evil cowboy v Indians binary opposition , with films such as Dances With Wolves