Dances with Westerns in Poland’s Borderlands by Piotr Skurowski

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

“…This article investigates how through adopting generic structures and binary oppositions of the classic Western film American Sniper succeeds in evoking a sense of “frontier mythology.” …”
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Aller au cinéma pour apprendre à être « moderne » ? by Anne Kerlan

“…This was particularly true for theaters where western films were screened: going to see such films could be conceived as a global experience, a way to learn in all aspects the western modernity carried by these products. …”
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A Guiding Line? Rethinking the Road in American Post-Apocalyptic Narratives by Cécile DO HUU

“…In the USA, road lines guide both American travel literature and the nation’s history of westward expansion. From western films to road movies, the road has become a specific space-time woven from the mythologies of the Frontier, wilderness, progress, as well as an imaginary of freedom and new beginnings. …”
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The South between Two Frontiers: Confederate Cowboys and Savage Rednecks by Hervé Mayer

“…The myth of the Frontier, which locates the birth of the American nation in its confrontation with a bordering savagery, was a national myth in Western films until the 1960s. As a genre engaged with the exploration of Americanness, the Western attracted many ex-Confederates in search of political legitimacy and the Western Frontier became a place of national rehabilitation for the South. …”
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The Development and Competition of Cinemas in Jakarta, 1950-1966 by Ghesa Ririan Mitalia

“…The cinemas in Jakarta were gaining popularity with the large number of western films (Hollywood). However those paradoxical situation then developed into a political problem. …”
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