Moving Images, Understanding Media

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Western – Th e most distinctive fi lm genre to many viewers, the western is

understood to be a motion picture set in the western continental United

States or a region resembling it during the time period of the settling of the

American frontier (generally the second half of the nineteenth century). Th e

stories and themes of westerns revolve around the conquering and settling of

the Western United States by white Americans and involve confl icts among

these settlers (oft en cowboys and outlaws) and between them and Native

Americans.

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