Once upon a time, the Western was the biggest genre in Hollywood. No other type of motion picture came close to the popularity and overall atmosphere evoked by the traditional horse opera. After being ...

The Western genre has been a defining hallmark of cinema ever since it first rose to prominence as far back as the 1930s. Reaching its pinnacle in the 50s and 60s, it became emblematic of American ...

Movies like Tombstone and Django Unchained define brutality in the genre, but they aren't the only examples of this.

The Western film genre has plenty of subgenres under its belt. From classic Golden Age Westerns to internationally-produced spaghetti Westerns, these films offer their own distinct take on the age-old ...

Every decade has a cinematic genre that forever defines its generation. In the 1930s, it was the kind of screwball comedy that starred Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, Clark Gable, and James Stewart. In ...

James Stewart looks through his camera in a scene form the film 'Rear Window', 1954. ( The 1950s were the last full decade of the Golden Age of Hollywood. Hollywood filmmakers weren’t the only ones ...