There are eight “great themes” for westerns, according to Critics Jean-Louis Rieupeyrout and Andre Bazin. whose book, Le Western, ou le Cinema Americain par Excellence, is the most exhaustive of the ...

Every decade has a cinematic genre that forever defines its generation. In the 1930s, it was the kind of screwball comedy that starred Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, Clark Gable, and James Stewart. In ...

The Western film genre has plenty of subgenres under its belt. From classic Golden Age Westerns to internationally-produced spaghetti Westerns, these films offer their own distinct take on the age-old ...

The western is one of the most recognizable genres in cinematic history, and there are some absolute classics that everyone should see at least one time in their lives. Burgeoning around the same time ...

Of the many genres in cinema, none is as distinctively American as the Western. Typically set in the American frontier during the mid to late 1800s, the Western is crucial to the very fabric of ...

Anyone who knows Western cinema knows the history of the popular cinema genre and its evolution over the last hundred or so years. What's most fascinating about the genre is how it has affected ...

Liam Gaughan is a film and TV writer at Collider. He has been writing film reviews and news coverage for ten years. Between relentlessly adding new titles to his watchlist and attending as many ...

With the release, success, and celebration of Ryan Coogler’s Sinners, I’m hopeful the Western horror subgenre will gain popularity within cinema. It’s been fairly consistent within the literary world ...

Ryan Heffernan is a Senior Writer at Collider. Storytelling has been one of his interests since an early age, with his appreciation for film and television becoming a particular interest of his during ...

The new trend was explained by Moviemaker Bill Thomas, of Pine-Thomas Corp., topnotch producers of B pictures: “The exhibitors warned us there was a tendency toward too many westerns. They told us to ...