The western might be the most recognizable genre in cinema history, and there are a handful of classic that every moviegoer ...

Classic Hollywood: 'Broncho Billy' Anderson, William S. Hart and Tom Mix of the silent-film era were pioneers in western films.

What Studio Franchises Can Learn From the Rise, Fall and Rise of the Western A powerhouse for decades, like the superhero genre of today, lost its cultural stature as audiences were saturated with ...

Find out what Hollywood gets wrong about the Old West. Includes six facts from facial hair to cowboy hats.

‘Rust’ honors the classic Hollywood western, uneasily Alec Baldwin stars in an otherwise unremarkable movie that has been overshadowed by its tragic production story.

“Rust,” Alec Baldwin and Joel Souza’s slow-moving, sepia-toned homage to the American western, is the kind of respectable if unremarkable genre exercise that would have come and gone without ...

“Hollywood Westerns and American Myth: The Importance of Howard Hawks and John Ford for Political Philosophy” derives from lectures Mr. Pippin gave to an academic audience. Not much was done ...

How Hollywood Whitewashed the Old West For decades, the film industry has obscured the role people of color played in the American frontier. Today, movies are trying to reckon with that past.

Among the blacklisted was screenwriter Carl Foreman, whose 1952 classic western High Noon is seen as a parable about the toxic political climate of the time.

GRAY HATS Unlike classic Hollywood Westerns where the good guys wore white hats and the bad guys black, the characters in "Hell on Wheels" -- including a bevy of prostitutes -- are more gray.