Western Armenia

writing produced places that could be thought of as barren, empty, unleveled … [and] needful of European influence and control” (319). Meanwhile, Kathleen Jamie’s essay “Shia Girls’ is a piece of travel writing that produced an idea of Pakistan for her Western readers. The keyword in the editor 's’ description of travel writing is “control,” both generally and for Pakistan. Before reading Jamie’s essay, Pakistan seemed an “empty” place for me and probably for most Americans. In our minds, when…

He is remembered to this day as the “Father of the Western”. Zane Grey was able to capture his childhood and many adventures through his youth into classics of the western genre. The relationships and hardships Zane faced as a young man, greatly impacted and thrusted his career to fame and fortune. The agony and hardships were an immense struggle for Zane,…

the cowboy western genre “The Wild West has always enticed the readers’ imagination” (Vanja 128). This research paper explores the context of Patrick deWitt’s The Sisters Brothers (2011). DeWitt’s use of a “stylized abstraction of western speech” (Vernon 1) offers its readers a respite from everyday life. Although it follows the traditional scheme of a cowboy western genre, the novel has certain innovations of its own (Vanja 130). The novel is narrated in a gritty 19th Century western speech,…

Screening: The Third Man (1949): Directed by Carol Reed, this black and white film had exceptionally articulate visuals of landscapes throughout the city of Vienna in 1948. In spite of being for the most part shot around evening time and in the sewers, the director does an incredible job capturing the overall character of the city. The music was fairly interesting, and added a feeling of peculiarity to the film. Although all the actors played their roles, respectively, Orson Welles was my…

Title: The title The Devil’s Highway is both literal and metaphorical. Because the meaning of the title has both literal and metaphorical connotations, it easily captures the essence of the book. Literally, while these men travelled across the desert in order to reach the Mexican-US border, they traveled through the Devil’s Highway. Metaphorically, the title is a representation of how these men went through Hell on earth to get to where they needed to go. These men experienced dehydration,…

you a glimpse into real cowboy western wear. Leather boots, blue jeans and ten-gallon hats dot the landscape in Texas. If you love the look but you live farther north, you might think dressing like a cowboy or cowgirl is off limits. That’s really not the case as anyone can pull of the western wear look with the right clothes. The staple of any look like this is the blue jeans. Most of us have at least one pair of jeans we absolutely adore. For the cowboy western wear look, you need a pair that…

The revisionist western drama begins with cowboys, who look to be “bad”, all meeting up and riding into town, as a gang, on their horses. The film then shows us a man and woman getting married, also finding out the man is a deputy. Will Kane, the deputy, previously locked away Frank Miller, the outlaw, for a crime he was supposed to be killed for. High Noon is filmed in real time, the audience only know as much as the characters because everything is portrayed at the same speed between viewers…

it comes to films, I am generally open to almost anything and by almost, I mean, anything with the exception of Westerns. I cannot stand them with everything in my being. None of it makes sense to me, none of it looks real and it just does not appeal to me. Growing up, I seen or should I say, was forced to endure westerns if I wanted to watch television, because my mother was a big western fan. That may be what led to my extreme distaste for them now, having to watch them every day as a child.…

Westerns have come a long way since the silent film days and the original western, The Great Train Robbery in 1903. Today, modern technology has allowed westerns to become more thrilling, more daring, and more action packed than ever before, and none of this is more true than for Django Unchained(2012) directed by Quentin Tarantino and the TV show Firefly(2002), created by Joss Whedon. While both embrace new and interesting twists to the genre, both still feature many of the classic themes…

The concept of myth influences many cowboy narratives. Especially Hollywood movies are full of mythical elements of the American West. Although myths will play a minor role in the analysis of the cowboy biographies, it is necessary to mention some theories of myth and to elaborate on its definition. Historian Richard Slotkin gives an excellent characterization of myth in his book Gunfighter Nation, which will be used for further elaboration. Myths are stories drawn from a society’s history that…