The western has been a quintessentially American film genre since the silent era, however, its dimensions considerably expanded during the sound era, from John Ford’s Stagecoach (1939), My Darling Clementine (1946), The Searchers (1956), and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962) to Fred Zinnemann’s High Noon (1952) and George Stevens’ Shane (1953). One of […]