Part one of term paper
are the major defining genre of the American film industry, a eulogy to the early days of the expansive American frontier. They are one of the oldest, most enduring and flexible genres and one of the most characteristically American genres in their mythic origins - they focus on the West - in North America. have also been called the horse o ...

Part two of term paper
... dismissed, re-discovered, and spoofed. The roots of the film western are found in folk music of the colonial period, James Fenimore Cooper's novels such as The Last of the Mohicans (1826) (re-made as a feature film at least three times - 1920, 1936, and most recently as a popular film starring Daniel Day Lewis as a white scout named Hawkeye raised as a Mohican in The Last of the Mohicans (1992)), Francis Parkman's The Oregon Trail (1849), Samuel Clemens' (Mark Twain) Roughing It (1872), Bret Harte ...