“The Old Wild West in the New Middle East”: American Sniper (2014) and the Global Frontiers of the Western Genre by Lennart Soberon

“…Such a mythical conception of the Western genre operates as a political frame through which a jingoist discourse on the Iraq war is reaffirmed and within which audiences can interpret the conflict—and the undertaken military measures—as necessary and just.…”
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The Master Film is a Western : The Mythology of the American West in the Cities of the Red Night Trilogy by Michael J. Prince

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The Literary Roots of Southern Westerns by Lauric Guillaud

“…The moving geography of the United States, which expanded West with the gradual settlement of the Frontier, turned such border states as Kentucky the West and the South into places of encounter for the Western and the Southern. The Western genre often borrowed from Southern codes and tropes – for instance violence, individualism, and honor. …”
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The West and the Western as grounds for reconciliation in the American Civil War by Juliette Bourdin

“…It also aims to show how and to what extent the Western genre proved to be a convenient means to sustain the tale of national reconciliation in the American Civil War. …”
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Passée la porte, il n’y a rien que du vent : Southern et Western, du désenchantement au crépuscule by Christian Viviani

“…Southern melodrama can be understood as a generic enclave rooted in traditional melodrama which borrows from the Western genre not only its interrelated historical framework, particular rites, but its recognizable characters, decors, costumes and coded situations. …”
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Krambambuli ou l’adaptation d’un classique de la littérature et du cinéma by Aurélie Le Née

“…The Mitterer/Schwarzenberger film renews this tradition, opting for a clear reference to the Western genre, while going beyond it by giving an important place to the female characters, who are generally in the background in this type of film and very secondary in Ebner-Eschenbach’s story.…”
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Racial Violence at the Crossroads of West and South in Rosewood (John Singleton, 1997) by Claire Dutriaux

“…This article explores the interplay between South and West and examines how Rosewood borrows from the Western genre to explore and rewrite racial history in the American South. …”
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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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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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