Star and National Myths in Cold War Allegories: Marlene Dietrich’s Star Persona and the Western in Fritz Lang’s Rancho Notorious (1952) by Hilaria Loyo

“…At the same time, by moving Dietrich progressively towards the centre of the film, he produced an amalgam of the women’s film and the Western genre that suggested the pointlessness of the male aggression the Western itself had traditionally embodied.…”
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Barbara Stanwyck’s Grey Hair by Silvia Vacirca

“…Moreover, Stanwyck’s fascination with the western genre is consistent with his image as a mature woman with Republican tendencies. …”
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Detective Stories During Apartheid: H.I.E. Dhlomo as a Precursor of Drum by Fossati, Marta

“…Notwithstanding their different re-elaboration of the tropes of crime fiction, I argue that both Dhlomo and Maimane resorted to this productive strand of popular literature to reassert a claim to knowledge denied to Africans, saturating their texts with new local meanings and exceeding Western genre conventions. …”
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REMAPPING THE BOUNDARIES: THE NOVELISTIC LANDSCAPE OF LESLIE MARMON SILKO’S STORYTELLER by Sanja Runtić

“…Through its shift towards oral discourse, Silko’s novel stretches the horizon of the Western genre, challenging its narrative, authorial and receptional conventions, as well as its epistemology of space and time. …”
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On Genre Shells and Genre Nuclei (On the Function of the Western / Popular Structure in Socialist Realist Narratives) Structure in Socialist Realist Narratives) by René Bílik

“…The study focuses on identifying the western genre invariants and revealing their functions in the structure of the Socialist Realist narratives. …”
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No Country for Old X-Men: The Aging Hero in No Country for Old Men and Logan by Ljubica Matek, Zvonimir Prtenjača

“…Their fluctuating identities challenge the traditional, idealistic representations of patriarchal Western heroes by introducing a more realistic and complex concept of an aging hero both into the universe of the neo-Western genre and into popular culture.…”
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Rockstar Games, Red Dead Redemption, and Narratives of “Progress” by Esther Wright

“…Usually bound up with other loaded terms such as “civilization” (and its implicit antithesis, “savagery”), popular culture that falls under the broader umbrella of the Western genre has often used the idea of progress and development, from past to future, as a cornerstone of their stories and messages. …”
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Identity, Indigeneity and “Mythologerm”: Reading the Stories of Satyajit Ray’s Professor Shonku as Postcolonial Science Fiction by Goutam Karmakar, Tanushree Ghosh

“…By investigating some of the stories of Professor Shonku, this paper strives to depict how these stories subvert the western genre of science fiction by legitimizing “native knowledge,” possessed by Professor Shonku as well as other characters as scientific and rational. …”
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Subverting masculinity, misogyny, and reproductive technology in SEX PISTOLS by Jessica Bauwens-Sugimoto

“…Superficial readings of works in the yaoi (also called ‘boys love’) genre outside of Japan often condemn or dismiss the genre as (more) misogynist, (more) homophobic, and occasionally (more) racist (than works in a similar ‘Western’ genre called slash). The yaoi genre is seen as ideologically inferior to its ‘Western’ counterpart, and the root or cause of this inferiority is often ascribed to its creators living in and being shaped by what is seen as a (relatively more) sexually oppressive society, contemporary Japan. …”
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Commodifying Tragedy: Representing Violence against Native American Women in "The Cold Dish" and "Longmire" by Cécile Heim

“…Not only do the novel and TV show redeploy the racist stock characters of the Magical Indian and the White Savior, but the TV show especially also reiterates a version of the stereotypical Vanishing American narrative inherited from the Western genre. Furthermore, both cultural productions heavily pathologize the Cheyenne community, depriving them of agency. …”
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Literary Genres and Their Theoretical and Terminological Challenges in Kurdish Literature by Mohsen Ahmad Omar

“…Dramatic poetry, as the typical western genre, was later added to this categorization, while it did not have much representation in Kurdish classical literature and mostly emerged in the twentieth century. …”
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“The Dude Abides”: How "The Big Lebowski" Bowled Its Way from a Box Office Bomb to Nation-Wide Fests by Katarzyna Małecka

“…It looks at The Big Lebowski’s characters, the historical time and place of the film’s action as well as at various external historical events, phenomena, places and people such as, for example, the Port Huron Statement, the Reagan-Bush era, Los Angeles and its immigration issues, racial minorities, civil rights activists, the Western genre and, last but not least, Arnold Schwarzenegger. …”
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On third thoughts: the ambivalence of border crossing in Tommy Lee Jones’ "The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada" by Aitor Ibarrola Armendáriz

“…Several reviewers have rightly argued that Jones’ film, like Unforgiven (1992) and Lone Star (1996), “offers another twist on the Western genre, breaking conventions and proving that there is vast unexplored territory within the traditional gun-slinging setting of the frontier.” …”
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The confrontation of savageness and civilization in Joe Abercrombie’s fantasy Western Red Country by Ivanova, Elizaveta Andreevna

“…In Red Country Abercrombie uses traditional episodes of Indian attacks etc. according to the Western genre conventions, but afterwards he shows the relativity of the ideas of civilization and savageness themselves; since attributing these characteristics to one or the other group of characters depends exclusively on one’s point of view. …”
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Filme hören. Auditive Dimensionen der Filmrezeption, am Beispiel ausgewählter Szenen aus Don't Come Knocking (2005) und The Lone Ranger (2013, TV 1949) by Dieter Merlin

“…Beispielszenen sind aufgrund der Schüler*innen meist bereits vertrauten, vergleichsweise leicht zugänglichen Dramaturgie dem Western-Genre entnommen. Wichtiger Hinweis: Dieser Artikel beinhaltet mehrere Filmzitate, die nur nach einem Download des Artikels in bzw. mit bestimmten Readern (die MiDU-Redaktion empfiehlt den Adobe Acrobat Reader) aktiviert bzw. angesehen werden können. …”
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Journeys – an introduction by Rune Andersen, Knud Knudsen

“…Additionally, his books on the Indian Winnetou were made into film being the indirect cause of the spaghetti-western genre. (Frayling, 1998) This issue reflects the broad definition of journeys in the call, in our opinion in a positive way. …”
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Factors affecting automatic genre classification: an investigation incorporating non-western musical forms by Mohd Norowi, Noris, C. Doraisamy, Shyamala, O. K. Rahmat, Rahmita Wirza

“…As for the dataset, most studies in this area work with western genres and traditional Malay music is incorporated in this study. …”
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Hamd in Haiku: An Overview by Fouzia Anjum, Muhammad Afzal Hameed

“…Today Hamdia poetry is being written in ancient, modern, eastern and western genres. This article deals with the Hamdia poetry written the particular genre Haiko.…”
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The Lynching and Rebirth of Ned Buntline: Rogue Authorship during the American Literary Renaissance by Mark Metzler Sawin

“…He published over 170 novels, edited multiple popular and political publications, and helped pioneer the seafaring adventure, city mystery and Western genres. It was his pirate tales that Tom Sawyer constantly reenacted, his “Bowery B’hoys” that came to define the distinctive slang and swagger of urban American characters, and his novels and plays that turned an unknown scout into Buffalo Bill, King of the Border Men. …”
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Malaysian reality tv: between myth and reality by Juliana Abdul Wahab

“…However,most of the locally produced programmes tend to be mere copies of the western genres.The popularization of these genres is also an indicative of the process of the globalization that has taken place. …”
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