Abstract:In the 1960s, the Western genre was systematically dismantled from within, not by the cynicism of the Italian Western cycle, nor by the revisionist politics of anti‐Westerns, but by the spate, indeed, the rash, of Western comedies, many of them directed by Hollywood Western veterans such as John Sturges (
Sergeants 3
, 1962;
The Hallelujah Trail
, 1965), Andrew McLaglen (
McLintock!
, 1963;
The Ballad of Josie
, 196… Show more
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