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Jun 14, 2008 · How the West Was Lost: Directed by Chris Cottam. With Rich Hall, Karen Jones, Edward Buscombe, Ben Traywick. Rich Hall looks at how the most quintessentially American film genre, the Western, came to be killed off.
Mar 3, 2019 · He explores how the image of the cowboy as a moral, straight-talking heroic figure was created by Hollywood but appropriated by Washington, as one president after another sought to associate ...
Jun 13, 2008 · Comedian Rich Hall goes west to find out what killed off that most quintessentially American of all film genres, the western. Through films such as The Searchers, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence, Little Big Man, The Wild Bunch and Unforgiven, Rich charts the rise and fall of America's obsession with its own creation myth - the Wild West.
Initially these documentaries focused on film genres: Rich Hall's How the West Was Lost (first broadcast June 2008) discusses Westerns, Rich Hall's The Dirty South (October 2010) challenges stereotypical Hollywood presentations of the Southern United States, Rich Hall's Continental Drifters (November 2011) examines the American road movie, Rich ...
Jun 13, 2008 · Comedian Rich Hall goes west to find out what killed off that most quintessentially American of all film genres, the western. Through films such as The Searchers, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence, Little Big Man, The Wild Bunch and Unforgiven, Rich charts the rise and fall of America's obsession with its own creation myth - the Wild West.
Rich Hall is a special kind of grumpy, but it just so happens to be a smart kind of grumpy. An excellent dive into the history of the Western genre, that quite fittingly stops in the mid-70s when all that was left was to wait for new generations to look back and find something still kicking without the baggage.
Comedian Rich Hall goes west to find out what killed off that most quintessentially American of all film genres, the western. Through films such as The Searchers, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence, Little Big Man, The Wild Bunch and Unforgiven, Rich charts the rise and fall of America's obsession with its own creation myth - the Wild West.
