The Western Through a Red Lens: Historiography, Propaganda, and Umfunktionierung in Red Westerns and Easterns. Part Five of Five.

Copyright 2019 by Michael W. Rickard IIEditor'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.The Easterns: The White Sun of the Desert and The Elusive Avengers trilogy Warsaw Pact filmmakers incorporated many elements of the Western into a film genre known as “Easterns.” These films paralleled Western elements with its frontier setting, battle between lawlessness and order but were...