'In a Moment of Brilliance': Heidegger's Horsemen, HIGH NOON and the Existential Sentiment of 'Westerns'

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1981

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Cameron, Evan Wm.
Hehner, Barbara

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By evidence and common consent, great 'western' movies are mythical encompassing a Weltanschauung that has engaged viewers within diverse cultures for over a century. Questions recur, however. What makes them so? and why have they proven so enticing to male viewers in particular? Within this essay I and Barbara Hehner address those questions, attending to the design of HIGH NOON as exemplary.

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Aristotle, Being and Time, Big sleep (Motion picture : 1946), Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (Motion picture), Cawelti, John, Chandler, Raymond, Cooper, Gary, Egan, Richard, Everson, William K., Fenin, George N., Filmmaking, Fistful of dollars (Motion picture), Fleischer, Richard, For whom the bell tolls (Motion picture), George Smiley, Gilligan, Carol, Guns of Fort Petticoat (Motion picture), Haskell, Mollie, Hehner, Barbara, Heidegger, Martin, Hemingway, Ernest, High noon (Motion picture), House Committee on Un-American Activities, Huston, John, James Bond, Jurado, Katy, Kant, Immanuel, Key Largo (Motion picture), Kitses, Jim, Kohlberg, Lawrence, Kurosawa, Akira, Leone, Sergio, Lévi-Strauss, Claude, Loevinger, Jane, McLaglen, Victor, Magnificent seven (Motion picture : 1960), Marshall, George, Montgomery, Robert, Murray, Don, My darling Clementine (Motion picture), Nazis, National Socialism, Nolan, Jeannette, O'Hara, Maureen, Ortega Y Gasset, José, Peckinpah, Sam, Philip Marlowe, Popper, Karl, Propp, Vladimir, Remick, Lee, Ride the high country (Motion picture), Rio Grande (Motion picture), Sartre, Jean-Paul, Screenwriting, Screenwriting, History of, Seven samurai (Motion picture), Sturges, John, Suzuki, David, These thousand hills (Motion picture), Treasure of the Sierra Madre (Motion picture), Tuska, Jon, Wild bunch (Motion picture), Warshow, Robert, Wittgenstein, Ludwig, Wright, Will, Yojimbo (Motion picture), Zweig, Eric, Cameron, Evan, Cameron, Evan

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