During the post-World War II period, the Western, like America's other great film genres, appeared to collapse as a result of revisionism and the emergence of n

When the earliest filmgoers watched The Great Train Robbery in 1903, many of them shrieked in terror at the very last clip when one of the outlaws turns directl

For more than a century the cinematic Western has been America's most familiar genre, always teetering on the verge of exhaustion and yet regularly revived in n

Saddle up and enjoy as the Observer's celebrated film critic Philip French takes readers on a tour of the Western.

In his only collection of short fiction, Glendon Swarthout, author of The Shootist, Where the Boys Are, and Bless the Beasts and the Children, reveals in microc