COMM 150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: New Hollywood, David Peoples, Sergio Leone
Document Summary
Re-visioning the american west: clint eastwood and unforgiven. Clint eastwood: closely linked to the western genre and its recon guration. First truly american genre (19032 the great train robbery) Based on pulp ction dime novels of the 19th century largely glori ed american frontier era after it had ended. Created itself anew out of the wilderness. Gun ghter- mobile hero who is ambivalent about what society brings to the west. Often he remains outside of society at the end, refusing to assimilate or compromise. He is the bringer of justice by way of his guns. Cowboys- rid horses, deal with cattle, protect them from villains, come to town for that which town represents (both good and bad) Indians- symbols of the wild west as represented in dime novels, the dangerous wilderness. Very stereotypic representation in early days and later revised. Town: features of characterization, an outside main street for gun ghting.
