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Paper Abstract: Discusses Jane Tompkins' book on Hollywood westerns. Images and themes that represent the film genre. Struggle over life and death; plots centering on gunfights and other violence. Westerns as a reflection of cultural changes in American society. Cites examples from films. "The Outlaw Josey Wales, " "The Wild Bunch," "Stagecoach." Comparison of John Ford's "My Darling Clemintine" and Fred Zinnemann's "High Noon." Paper Introduction: Jane Tompkins in her book West of Everything suggests certain elements as representing the inner life of the American Western movie. She cites a series of images and themes that represent the main features of this film genre, among them death, women, language, landscape, and horses. She notes that realizing that these themes are repeated over and over again calls to mind a series of questions, such as why is the Western haunted by death, why does the Western show a hatred of language and women, and what do the landscape and horses represent? She sets out to answer some of these questions, and reference to a number of films in the genre suggests how well her answers fit and offer other answers as well. The continuing presence of death in the Western is evident in the plots centering on gunfights, hangings, saloon violence, India Text of the Paper: The entire text of the paper is shown below. However, the text is somewhat scrambled. We want to give you as much information as we possibly can about our papers and essays, but we cannot give them away for free. In the text below you will find that while disordered, many of the phrases are essentially intact. From this text you will be able to get a solid sense of the writing style, the concepts addressed, and the sources used in the research paper. If this paper is not what you are looking for, you can search again: Search for: or Click here to request an essay written just for you.