Dr Tim Barnard

A/P  Ian Gordon

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FILM AND HISTORY

Lecture 4

"I ain’t different than anyone else no more"

Unforgiven (1992)
 

2. The Cowboy and America: 1950-Present

• Definitions: The Cowboy
  
  
• America: 1950s
  • Prosperity and Suburbs
  
  
• America: 1960s/70s
  • JFK Assassination
  • Vietnam
  • Nixon/Watergate
    
    
• Questions and Definitions
  • Films to fit new perspectives
    • The Magnificent Seven (1960)
    • The Wild Bunch (1969)
    • New Frontiers…

3. Clint

• Clint Eastwood (b. 1930)
  
  
• Spaghetti Westerns
  
  
• Sergio Leone
  
  
• Pale Rider (1985)

4. Basic Plot and Characters:

Will Munny (Clint Eastwood)
Little Bill (Gene Hackman)
Ned (Morgan Freeman)
English Bob (Richard Harris)
Strawberry Alice (Frances Fischer))

5. Things to Think About/Remember