... themselves. The first aspect we will examine are the characters that populate this Modern Western. Characters Prior to the introduction of the Modern Western, Classic Westerns consisted of two types of characters, the obviously good and the obviously bad. The 'good' were generally depicted as civilized, god fearing ... white folk; whereas the bad were either outlaws, or Indians. In classic Westerns the 'good' guys were very trustworthy, as depicted in the opening scene of Shane (1953) (Alfieri, 2013, p. 255). The character of ... tell stories, not the birth of a nation. The ...

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