How the West Was Shot: The Evolution of the Western Genre

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This list is a chronological look at the western as a genre. A genre as old as movies themselves, it has gone through many transformations and evolutions.

It aspires to showcase these many variations, starting from the silent era and ending with the Neo-Western, by choosing key films for each venture: Singing Cowboy, Acid Westerns, Ostern, Spaghetti Westerns, Meat Pie Westerns, Revisionist Westerns, Hybrid Westerns, Western Comedies, Superwesterns, etc...

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  1. 168 new

    Broken Arrow

    1950, in 1 top list Check
  2. 212 new

    Drum Beat

    1954, in 0 top lists Check
  3. 249 new

    Jubal

    1956, in 1 top list Check
  4. 251 new

    The Last Wagon

    1956, in 1 top list Check
  5. 263 new

    3:10 to Yuma

    1957, in 7 top lists Check
  6. 285 new

    Cowboy

    1958, in 1 top list Check
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    The Hanging Tree

    1959, in 1 top list Check
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Last updated on Dec 30, 2013;