15 Facts About Westerns

Early Westerns were mostly filmed in the studio, as in other early Hollywood films, but when location shooting became more common from the 1930s, producers of Westerns used desolate corners of Arizona, California, Colorado, Kansas, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas, Utah, or Wyoming.

Peak year for television Westerns was 1959, with 26 such shows airing during primetime.

Traditional Westerns died out in the late 1960s as a result of network changes in demographic targeting along with pressure from parental television groups.

Popularity of Westerns extends beyond films, literature, television, and visual art to include numerous other media.

Charro Westerns, often featuring musical stars, as well as action, have been a standard feature of Mexican cinema since the 1930s.

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Documentary Western is a subgenre of Westerns that explore the nonfiction elements of the historical and contemporary American West.

Many epic Westerns are commonly set during a turbulent time, especially a war, as in Sergio Leone's The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, set during the American Civil War, or Sam Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch, set during the Mexican Revolution.

Some new Euro-Westerns emerged in the 2010s, including Kristian Levring's The Salvation, Martin Koolhoven's Brimstone, and Andreas Prochaska's The Dark Valley.

Florida Westerns, known as cracker Westerns, are set in Florida during the Second Seminole War.

Narco Westerns are typically set in Northern Mexico, the Southwest United States, or on the border between the two.

Osterns are typically divided between "Easterns", which sought to portray an Eastern European analogue to the Wild West set in frontier regions across Eurasia, and "Red Westerns", which were set in the American West but sought to subvert the ideas of manifest destiny and other narratives typical of Hollywood Westerns in favor of Marxist ideals of proletarian internationalism and class consciousness.

Westerns became honorary chief of the Sioux tribe when he visited the United States, in the 1990s, and the television crew accompanying him showed the tribe of one of his films.

Examples of such revisionist Westerns include Ride the High Country, Richard Harris' A Man Called Horse, Little Big Man, Soldier Blue, Man in the Wilderness, The Outlaw Josey Wales, Dances with Wolves, Unforgiven, The Quick and the Dead, and Dead Man .

Spaghetti Westerns were characterized by the presence of more action and violence than the Hollywood Westerns.

Kurosawa was influenced by American Westerns and was a fan of the genre, most especially John Ford.