FWIW, consider cross-genre adaptations: Dashiell Hammett novels are mostly set in an urban landscape, but they're regularly adapted to western settings (and to samurai movies). Let's be honest, probably half the WWII movies ever made are actually westerns set in France. Lone-wolf urban cops took over the western roles in the late 60s/early 70s.
So I, for one, define the western not by its setting at all, but by its character-types and outcomes. Dirty Harry and Ethan Edwards have a lot more in common than, say, Antonia in My Antonia has with either of them!
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Date: 2009-03-13 01:10 am (UTC)So I, for one, define the western not by its setting at all, but by its character-types and outcomes. Dirty Harry and Ethan Edwards have a lot more in common than, say, Antonia in My Antonia has with either of them!