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,Click to edit Master title style,Click to edit Master text styles,Second level,Third level,Fourth level,Fifth level,*,Click to edit Master title style,Click to edit Master text styles,Second level,Third level,Fourth level,Fifth level,*,Click to edit Master title style,Click to edit Master text styles,Second level,Third level,Fourth level,Fifth level,*,Click to edit Master title style,Click to edit Master text styles,Second level,Third level,Fourth level,Fifth level,*,Click to edit Master title style,Click to edit Master text styles,Second level,Third level,Fourth level,Fifth level,*,Click to edit Master title style,Click to edit Master text styles,Second level,Third level,Fourth level,Fifth level,*,Click to edit Master title style,Click to edit Master text styles,Second level,Third level,Fourth level,Fifth level,*,Click to edit Master title style,Click to edit Master text styles,Second level,Third level,Fourth level,Fifth level,*,James Fenimore Cooper,James Fenimore Cooper has rightly been called,the first American novelist.,In his Leatherstocking Tales,Cooper writes chiefly about conflict man against man,and man against environment,but both are significantly American in setting.,The most important character in these novels is Hawkeye.,This character becomes the pattern for the mythic western hero,the cowboy,the frontiersman,the hero of so many cowboy movies and TV shows.,He is a vital part of American mythology and American culture.,THE WESTERN,The Western is a fiction genre seen in film,television,radio,literature,painting and other visual arts.,Westerns are devoted to telling stories set primarily in the later half of the 19th century in what became the Western United States(known as the American Old West or Wild West.,Themes,The popular perception of the Western is a story that centres on the life of a semi-nomadic wanderer,usually a cowboy or a gunfighter.,Apart from the wilderness,it is usually the saloon that emphasizes that this is the Wild West:it is the place to go for music(raucous piano playing),girls(often prostitutes),gambling(draw poker or five card stud),drinking(beer or whiskey),brawling and shooting.,The films often depict conflicts with Native Americans.,Other recurring themes of Westerns include Western treks and groups of bandits terrorising small towns such as in,The Magnificent Seven,.,TV WESTERNS,When the popularity of television exploded in the late 1940s and 1950s,westerns quickly became a basic ingredient of small-screen entertainment.,Notable TV Westerns include,Gunsmoke,The Lone Ranger,Laramie,Rawhide,Bonanza,The Virginian,Wagon Train,The Big Valley,Maverick,The High Chaparral,and many others.,The Lone Ranger is a masked Texas Ranger in the American Old West,who gallops about righting injustices,usually with the aid,of a clever American,Indian sidekick,called Tonto,and,his horse Silver.,Rawhide was a television western series which aired on the American network CBS from 1959 to 1966.,Rawhide was the fourth,longest-running American,TV western.,The Roy Rogers Show was a black and white American television series.,KEY POINTS,James Fenimore Cooper created a character in his books called Hawkeye.He is the mythic hero,the true democrat who,because he is(as D.H.Lawrence has described him)a saint with a gun,will right wrongs and avoid evils when possible.,This character becomes the pattern for the mythic western hero,the cowboy,the frontiersman,the hero of so many cowboy movies and TV shows.,He is a vital part of American mythology and American culture.,American Westerns of the 1940s and 1950s emphasize the values of honour and sacrifice.,Westerns from the 1960s and 1970s often have a more pessimistic view,glorifying a rebellious anti-hero and highlighting the cynicism,brutality and inequality of the American West.,
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