Beschreibung
The American Western genre in film has spanned the better part of a century, and its attributes have evolved from the classic in the early 1900s, to the contemporary-revisionist in the late 20th century. Traditionally, the American Western, through its revisionist subgenre born in the 1950s, has retained the same linear narrative structure of the classic Western as a means to deconstruct the romanticized myth of the American frontier. The revisionist Western subgenre transformed the American Western hero into the anti-hero through revealing his flaws, and the post-revisionist Western of the 1990s accentuated the anti-heros sense of moral ambiguity. The major aim of this study was to use the theme of emergent order in David Milchs Deadwood as a tool to discuss the deconstruction of the romanticized myth of the American frontier, and the reconstruction of the Western genre through the contemporary-revisionist Western.
Autorenporträt
Samantha Seamans completed her Master of Arts degree in English Language and Literature at Central Connecticut State University. She is currently an Adjunct Professor of English at Central Connecticut State University and Westfield State University in Massachusetts.
