The End of the Trail

How the Western Movies Rode Into the Sunset
prented by movie critic Robert Horton.

The Western was America’s bedrock mythology –and greatest movie genre – for the first seventy years of film history. But during a tumultuous period in the late 1960s and early 1970s, the “revisionist” Western took up a fiercely critical argument: In the disillusioned age of Vietnam and the counterculture, you could no longer distinguish heroes from villains by the color of their hats. Robert Horton explores how… Show more the dramatic changes in Westerns forced us to look critically at our own myths. How do movies challenge our way of thinking – and what happens when a movie forces us to question our long-cherished beliefs? Audience: 9 through adult.

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