The Western Through a Red Lens: Historiography, Propaganda, and Umfunktionierung in Red Westerns and Easterns. Part Two of Five.
Copyright 2018 by Michael W. Rickard II
Editor's Note: In 2016 I wrote a paper for my undergraduate senior project on the Red Western, a sub-genre of the Western film. Here is the paper in its original form.Conventional wisdom is that American Westerns did not provide an honest look at the reality of American expansion into the West. A Hollywood film like How the West Was Won implied truth in its title but reality could be different. It wasn’t until revisionist Westerns arose in the 60’s, that...
Editor's Note: In 2016 I wrote a paper for my undergraduate senior project on the Red Western, a sub-genre of the Western film. Here is the paper in its original form.Conventional wisdom is that American Westerns did not provide an honest look at the reality of American expansion into the West. A Hollywood film like How the West Was Won implied truth in its title but reality could be different. It wasn’t until revisionist Westerns arose in the 60’s, that...
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