ซีรีย์ฝรั่ง are the principal indefinite style of the American film industry, a sentimental eulogy to the ancient days of the widespread, untamed American hinterland which is the boundary line between the civilized world and the wilderness. Westerns are one of the earliest, long-lasting, and malleable genres in addition to having mythical origins.

The Growth and Decline of The Western Genre

While the prevalence of westerns has grown and declined over the years, their most productive era was from the 1930s to the 1960s, and lately in the 90s, when the genre reemerged. They seem to be making an exhilarating comeback both on the TV screen and in movie theatres. Many of the ซีรีย์ฝรั่ง and films today pay homage to the old days but add a modern twist with fashion hairstyles and new technology.

Focus of Westerns 

This autochthonous American art form concentrates on the outskirts West that survived in North America. Westerns are usually set on the American backwoods during the latter end of the 19th century specifically 1865-1900 after the Civil War, in a geographically western background with the wild, extensive frontier landscapes or mountainous country terrain.

Nevertheless, Westerns may stretch back to the past during America’s colonial period or spring forward to the mid-20th century or span as far as Mexico. Several westerns films use notable wars and revolutions as the background. The western film class regularly depicts the subjugation of the wilderness and the submission of nature, in the title of civilization, or the commandeering of the provincial rights of the original settlers of the land.

The Landscape and Symbols of the Western Genre

 Specific environments tend to include remote and secluded fortresses, ranch dwellings, the private homestead, the tavern, the jail, the livery stable, the small-town main square, or modest country towns that are appearing at the boundaries of civilization. They can likewise incorporate Native American settlements.

Additional iconic ingredients in westerns are the hanging tree, Stetsons and spurs, saddles, lassos and Colt .45’s, bandannas and buckskins, canteens, stagecoaches, gamblers, long-horned cattle and cattle drives, and tender-hearted prostitutes. Most times, the cowboy always has a favorite horse commonly referred to as his ‘faithful steed. Moreover, western films have also been dubbed the horse libretto, the oater, or the cowboy picture.

The western film genre has represented much of America’s past, venerating the past-fading purposes and ambitions of the mythological by-gone era of the West. Eventually, due to the dissolution of the genre, westerns had to be evaluated, dropped, re-imagined, recreated, and developed, dropped, re-discovered, and revamped.

In the late 60s and early 70s and the succeeding years, traditional beliefs regarding westerns investigated the motifs and components of traditional classic westerns. These evaluations ultimately led to a mix of new and old themes that lead to the western genre as we know it today. Themes regularly appearing to be historic, the singing cowboy, the spaghetti Western, the dark Western, the modern, the non-traditional comedy, the post-apocalyptic, the science-fiction, and space Western.