del musical a la era espacial
When a corpus of a genre is established two things tend to happen: 1. A list of films is compiled that respond to a simple tautological definition of genre (ie. Western = film that takes place in the west, cowboys, etc) 2. Critics, theoreticians that stick to a cannon that has little do with the [...]
** Notes on Robert Warshow’s – Movie Chronicle : The Westerner The title indicates that Warshow is more concerned about the westerner – the western hero-, than the genre itself. However, the western is pretty much defined by its hero and the hero, particularly in the western and in action movies, is the driving force [...]
Westerns have occupied a very important place in the discussion on genre theory. Despite the fact that westerns are not as popular as they used to be in the 40’s and 50’s, the western is still central to the theoretical approaches to genre.
