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• Western Film

• Definition

• Battle of the Alamo

• Themes

• The Wild Bunch

• American West

• Film - Movies - Characteristics

• Native Americans

• Stagecoach

• El Dorado

• Subgenres

• Classical Westerns

• Spaghetti Westerns

• Osterns

• Revisionist Western

• Acid Western

• Contemporary Westerns

• Science fiction Western

• Curry Western

• Genre studies

• Clint Eastwood

• Influences

• Peter Hyams' Outland

• Outlaw Star

• Sierra Madre

• Sergio Leone's films

• Television

• Deadwood

• Literature

• Visual art

• Other media

• Notable actors and directors

• Glenn Ford

• James Stewart

• Kirk Douglas

• Robert Mitchum

• Victor Mature

• Actresses

• Jane Russell

• Singing cowboys

• Directors

List of Western Movies

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The films often depict conflicts with Native Americans. While early ethnocentric Westerns frequently portray the "Injuns" as dishonorable villains, the later more culturally neutral Westerns give the natives more sympathetic treatment. Other recurring themes of Westerns include Western treks and groups of bandits terrorising small towns such as in The Magnificent Seven.

Early Westerns were mostly filmed in the studio, just like other early Hollywood films, but when location shooting became more common from the 1930s, producers of Westerns used desolate corners of New Mexico, California, Arizona, Utah, Nevada, Kansas, Texas, Colorado or Wyoming. While many Westerns were filmed in California and Arizona, most of them depicted Texas. Productions were also filmed on location at movie ranches.

Western Film - Stagecoach