. . . yeah, but I don't call Dashiell Hammett novels _Westerns_. nor WWII movies set in France.
I mean, I think you're right that setting is not sufficient, but I'm still thinking that, at least in the general cultural-white-knowledge-level conception of "Western", it's necessary.
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Date: 2009-03-13 12:42 pm (UTC)I mean, I think you're right that setting is not sufficient, but I'm still thinking that, at least in the general cultural-white-knowledge-level conception of "Western", it's necessary.