FTV10006 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: James Fenimore Cooper, Dennis Hopper, Studio System
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Where have all the cowboys gone: since the peak of the 1950s westerns have been less frequently produced, the conventions and iconography of that genre have informed much of. Science fiction: moving into the 1960s the frontier was relocated from the american west, many sci fi films have western conventions and motifs (mad max), some westerns have been remade as sci fi films, (ghost on mars) In the late 1960s/70s the thematic tension between law and order was relocated to crime ridden city centres in urban crime films (dirty harry: these films adopted many western conventions (including stars such as clint east wood) Road movies: road movies are built on the conflict between freedom and conformity, with individuality threatened by community, (easy rider, dennis hopper 1969) Superhero movies: the superhero is but the western heroic persona elevated near omnipotence. And in the superhero"s vigilante adventuring outside the law (harvey, 1996:
