The Western
Films like Stagecoach and The Great Train Robbery, which concentrate on action and movement with a heroic character on a quest, are examples of this Western subgenre
What is the epic Western?
This type of hat is a common component of the gangster film's costuming
What is a fedora?
In the 1930s and 1940s, Universal Studios and RKO made a number of horror movies in which subgenre?
The creature feature/monster movie
The typical setting for a Western
The American West
This cycle of films was made after World War II and focused on broader cultural issues and social ills
What is the social problem film?
While American film studios were making science fiction films in the 1950s, this British studio was busy remaking classic monster features like The Curse of Frankenstein and Dracula
What is Hammer Films
This subgenre of the Western film communicates a more introspective worldview, in which the traditional hero is troubled by his changing social status
What is the existential Western?
The tension between what is seen onscreen and what might be hovering offscreen is a key convention of this genre
What is horror?
Two majors events heralded the end of 1960s hippie counterculture and ushered in the anxious ennui of the 1970s. One was the Tate-LaBianca murders. This was the other
What is the first televised Vietnam draft lottery?
Naturalized use of violence in movies like The Wild Bunch is a convention of which Western subgenre?
What is the political Western?
This auteur directed Psycho?
Who is Alfred Hitchcock?
After World War II, this is the fate of the screwball heroine
What is she is disciplined and then disappears?
This is the job of the Western hero
What is making the West safe for settlement?
This is the practice of a studio system or a national film industry of promoting films and organizing audience expectations through the cultivation of distinctive and well-known performers
The Godfather specifically and gangster films more broadly trouble this major cultural narrative
What is the American Dream?