Deconstruction of Western genre in the 1950s' and 1960's: Budd Boetticher, Sam Peckinpah, and Sergio Leone
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The Western, one of the most popular film genres, reached to the acme of its genre circulation in the 1950s. But, it showed the significant change in its narrative and convention gradually. It is regarded as the response to socio-historical transformation - the change of film audience, US intervention in Vietnam and 1960s social turmoil. This research explores the change seen in narrative and convention and examines new element and sensibility. It is based on the analysis of some Western films of 1950s and 1960s, which produced by Budd Boetticher, Sam Peckinpah, Sergio Leone. The 1950s Westerns are divided into two tendencies. First, the main characters allegorize nation building in the West. Second, on the contrary, stories and events are rather personal, and West or landscape is provided as the spatial background of them. In the 1960s, the myth of nation building was not effective any more. Boetticher's two films are relatively close to romance Westerns, Peckinpah's two films are included in epic Western, but Ride the High Country is more romantic and more appealing for women. Leone's film is an action film that emphasizes stylish gun fighting and deals with personal struggles and private feud. The transition from Boetticher through Peckinpah to Leone is the intensification of violence and the marginalization of woman. Individual stories are just personal stories (Boetticher), the stories of deterioration appear (Peckinpah), or the stories are told and revealed with different perspectives and unfamiliar style (Leone). In any direction, cinematic violence increases, romance disappears, and the genre becomes more
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The Western, one of the most popular film genres, reached to the acme of its genre circulation in the 1950s. But, it showed the significant change in its narrative and convention gradually. It is regarded as the response to socio-historical transformation - the change of film audience, US intervention in Vietnam and 1960s social turmoil. This research explores the change seen in narrative and convention and examines new element and sensibility. It is based on the analysis of some Western films of 1950s and 1960s, which produced by Budd Boetticher, Sam Peckinpah, Sergio Leone. The 1950s Westerns are divided into two tendencies. First, the main characters allegorize nation building in the West. Second, on the contrary, stories and events are rather personal, and West or landscape is provided as the spatial background of them. In the 1960s, the myth of nation building was not effective any more. Boetticher's two films are relatively close to romance Westerns, Peckinpah's two films are included in epic Western, but Ride the High Country is more romantic and more appealing for women. Leone's film is an action film that emphasizes stylish gun fighting and deals with personal struggles and private feud. The transition from Boetticher through Peckinpah to Leone is the intensification of violence and the marginalization of woman. Individual stories are just personal stories (Boetticher), the stories of deterioration appear (Peckinpah), or the stories are told and revealed with different perspectives and unfamiliar style (Leone). In any direction, cinematic violence increases, romance disappears, and the genre becomes more
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