Cowboy

be a frontier line” (CITE pg. 7 of Sakai handout). The narratives of the Frontier myth was continuous. With President John F. Kennedy’s emphasis on the space exploration along with economic growth, soldiers equation of combat missions to playing “Cowboys and Indians, and President Ronald Reagan portrayal of the deceased in the 1986 explosion of the space shuttle challenger as settlers in the old frontier, several ideas associated with Frontier myth lived on. For instance Buffalo Bill’s Wild West…

So, both films contain images of gunslingers, cowboys and course bounty hunters, as well as the fact that they are often depicted as very special people, radically good or bad using revolvers or rifles as daily even routine means of survival with those wearing hats, spurs and bandannas, and riding from…

The Wild Bunch covers, no doubt, a whole variety and mix of genres and sub-genres. As anyone could make an argument for which genre they think is dominant in, “The Wild Bunch” (e.g. crime drama, romance, thriller, drug movie, dark comedy, etc.). The cinematic clues I’ve based my decision on is a subgenre of film known as the "Revisionist Western”. I’m sure you are asking yourself; how does this film that I chose enact the genre it is supposed to represent and how does it subvert it? Well,…

A group of seven misfits comes together to save a town from an evil, money seeking man in the film The Magnificent Seven directed by Antoine Fuqua. James Horner and Simon Franglen’s film score in The Magnificent Seven transported me back to the old west. Horner and Franglen effectively utilized the unique timbres of select instruments, texture, and foreshadowing making the audience feel as if they are riding along side the misfits, a character in the story experiencing all that unfolds on the…

new ideas and form new opinions” (Crevecoeur, 1782). A few generations later, one romanticized version America’s new man, with new principles, new ideas, and opinions is the man depicted in the Hollywood Western. That man, or person, is the settler, cowboy, or lonesome traveler who traverses the Western frontier in search of his place in and the promise of America. As America expands its frontier to the West during the nineteenth-century, the depiction of what it means to be a heroic settler…

When an American is asked about what is his image of President Theodore Roosevelt, he might come up with the image of a cowboy with his revolver working on a ranch in the West. However according to Edward P. Kohn’s book Heir to the Empire City, this is not the case. In his book Kohn stated that T.R’s western experience definitely helped him form an image of strong and tough in front of the public, yet his growing up and living in the East was the key element that shaped his character and his…

One of the best classic western films ever made by a director who was so versatile that many people might confuse him with other great western directors like John Ford or Anthony Mann, but Howard Hawks had an eye for character driven stories, had an expert sense of visual style, and knew how to use actors better than most. Hawks was one of those classic Hollywood directors that could easily orchestrate the action and compelling aspects that make a great western, and Red River is one. The film…

taking place in a distant town of Big Whiskey, whores offer service for cowboys at a bar. One day, two cowboys, Quick Mike and Davey Bunting cut up and scar a whore Delilah Fitzgerald, after her smirk remark towards Quick Mike. As a consequence, Strawberry Alice and the other prostitutes set up their revenge for the disturbing event by arranging a bounty to kill the two cowboys. All of these events trigger many killers and cowboys to pay Big Whiskey…

frontier” as he portrays the characters in his novels to be escaping the “constraints of civilization” and escaping the natural world. Furthermore, Frederic Remington captures the romanticism behind migrating westward through his artwork as he depicts a cowboy as a natural aristocrat living in a world without the factors of “civilization” in it. From the East and other places around the world, people romanticize the idea of settling down in the West as a “place of physical regeneration” where a…

In Grandview, Idaho there lived three teenagers, Cody, Clayton, and Cole Wright they are all cousins that would rodeo. Cody and Clayton are nineteen years old, and Cole is eighteen years old. Clayton’s junior and senior year of high school he took first place in the High School Rodeo National Finals in the bull riding and now has qualified for the NFR ( National Finals Rodeos ) in Las Vegas coming in second place in the world. Cody as qualified for the NFR two years in row but coming in First…