westerns
Cowboy movie genre
Westerns are a genre of stories set in the American Old West, typically featuring cowboys, outlaws, frontier towns, and conflicts between settlers and Native Americans.
The term covers novels, films, and television shows: He grew up watching westerns on Saturday afternoons.
Louis L'Amour wrote dozens of westerns.
The genre peaked in mid-20th-century Hollywood but remains culturally significant. (Capitalized Westerns emphasizes the genre as a distinct artistic tradition.)
- High NoonFamous 1952 Western title
- ShaneIrish male name
- Sergio LeoneItalian western filmmaker
- TombstoneHistoric Arizona frontier city
Butch Cassidy · Sundance Kid · Unforgiven · Deadwood · Gunsmoke · Red River · El Dorado · spurs
John Wayne
- High NoonFamous 1952 Western title
- ShaneIrish male name
- Sergio LeoneItalian western filmmaker
Tombstone · Butch Cassidy · Sundance Kid · Unforgiven · Deadwood · Gunsmoke · Red River · El Dorado · spurs · lasso
- filmsfeature films, action films, horror films, comedies, dramas
- Television Historygolden age, broadcast networks, network television, color TV, live broadcasts
- fictionfiction, novel, novels, novella, novellas
- genresaction, comedy, detective fiction, fantasy, horror
- TV showsTV shows, sitcom, The Office, cartoon, Modern Family
- film genreshorror, comedy, drama, action, romance
westernsscience fiction
Speculative fiction with technological themes
sci-fi · space operas · cyberpunk · film noir · dystopian fiction
- western attireFrontier-style dress
- western storiesFrontier-era adventure tales
- country westernAmerican roots music genre
- western movieFrontier-set film genre
- Western EuropeAtlantic-facing continental zone
- country and westernAmerican rural music style
western, westerly, southwestern, westerner, northwestern, westerners, westernmost, westernize, westernized