Golden Age of Hollywood Westerns

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Western film era film era historical period in cinema

The Golden Age of Hollywood Westerns was a mid-20th-century period when Western films dominated American cinema, popularizing iconic cowboy heroes, frontier myths, and musical Western stars.

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Surface form	Occurrences
Hollywood Westerns	3

Statements (77)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Western film era ⓘ film era ⓘ historical period in cinema ⓘ
associatedWith	20th Century Fox NERFINISHED ⓘ Columbia Pictures NERFINISHED ⓘ Hollywood studio system NERFINISHED ⓘ MGM NERFINISHED ⓘ Paramount Pictures NERFINISHED ⓘ RKO Pictures NERFINISHED ⓘ Republic Pictures NERFINISHED ⓘ Universal Pictures NERFINISHED ⓘ major film studios ⓘ
characterizedBy	A-picture Westerns NERFINISHED ⓘ B-Westerns NERFINISHED ⓘ Technicolor Westerns NERFINISHED ⓘ black-and-white Westerns ⓘ dominance of Westerns in American cinema ⓘ frontier myths ⓘ iconic cowboy heroes ⓘ musical Western stars ⓘ studio-produced Westerns ⓘ
country	United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States
declineFactor	changing audience tastes ⓘ emergence of revisionist Westerns ⓘ rise of television ⓘ
endPeriod	1950s ⓘ early 1960s ⓘ
includesSubgenre	B-Western ⓘ cavalry Western ⓘ musical Western ⓘ psychological Western ⓘ town-tamer Western ⓘ
industry	Hollywood NERFINISHED ⓘ
influenced	American popular culture ⓘ Spaghetti Westerns NERFINISHED ⓘ later revisionist Westerns ⓘ television Western series ⓘ
mainGenre	Western film ⓘ
medium	feature film ⓘ
mythologizes	American frontier NERFINISHED ⓘ cowboy culture ⓘ
notableDirector	Anthony Mann NERFINISHED ⓘ Budd Boetticher NERFINISHED ⓘ Delmer Daves NERFINISHED ⓘ Howard Hawks NERFINISHED ⓘ John Ford NERFINISHED ⓘ
notableFilm	3:10 to Yuma NERFINISHED ⓘ Fort Apache NERFINISHED ⓘ High Noon NERFINISHED ⓘ My Darling Clementine NERFINISHED ⓘ Red River NERFINISHED ⓘ Rio Bravo NERFINISHED ⓘ Rio Grande NERFINISHED ⓘ Shane NERFINISHED ⓘ She Wore a Yellow Ribbon NERFINISHED ⓘ Stagecoach NERFINISHED ⓘ The Gunfighter NERFINISHED ⓘ The Searchers NERFINISHED ⓘ Winchester '73 NERFINISHED ⓘ
notableMusicalWesternStar	Gene Autry GENERATED ⓘ Roy Rogers GENERATED ⓘ Tex Ritter GENERATED ⓘ
notableStar	Alan Ladd NERFINISHED ⓘ Gary Cooper NERFINISHED ⓘ Henry Fonda NERFINISHED ⓘ James Stewart NERFINISHED ⓘ Joel McCrea NERFINISHED ⓘ John Wayne NERFINISHED ⓘ Randolph Scott NERFINISHED ⓘ
relatedTo	Golden Age of Hollywood NERFINISHED ⓘ
startPeriod	1930s ⓘ late 1930s ⓘ
theme	civilization versus wilderness ⓘ heroic gunfighter ⓘ individualism ⓘ law and order on the frontier ⓘ settlement of the American West ⓘ

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Roy Rogers and Dale Evans → era → Golden Age of Hollywood Westerns ⓘ

Greaser’s Palace → influencedBy → Golden Age of Hollywood Westerns ⓘ

this entity surface form: Hollywood Westerns

Stuart E. McGowan → notableWorkField → Golden Age of Hollywood Westerns ⓘ

this entity surface form: Hollywood Westerns

Delmer Daves → notableFor → Golden Age of Hollywood Westerns ⓘ

this entity surface form: Hollywood Westerns