Timeline Westerns Flashcards
“The Iron Horse” context
1919: “Red Summer”, race riots in Northern cities
General strikes
President calls to patriotism (cf. Miriam)
The Hays Production Code
1930
“The Iron Horse” date and producer
1924, John Ford
“Jesse James” date and producer
1939, Henry King
“Jesse James” and “The Ox-Bow Incident” context
1929 Black Thursday, Great Depression
1936 Roosevelt’s New Deal
TOBI: WWII beginning
“The Ox-Bow Incident” date and producer
1943, William Wellman
“Broken Arrow” date and producer
1950, Delmer Daves
“Broken Arrow” context
Cold War
1950 beginning of the Korean War
Civil Rights
“Cheyenne Autumn” date and producer
1964, John Ford
“Cheyenne Autumn” context
Civil Rights movements and Civil Rights Act
1963 JFK assassinated
“Little Big Man” date and producer
1970, Arthur Penn
“Little Big Man” context
1968: end of the Hays Production Code + My Lai massacre in Vietnam
The Homestead Act
1862 (cf. Shane)
Lincoln assassinated
14 April 1865 (cf TIH)
“Shane” date + producer
1953, George Stevens
Washita River massacre
1868 (cf. LBM)
Transcontinental Railroad completed
1869 Union Pacific and Central Pacific meet at Promontary Point, Utah (TIH)
Cochise (Apache tribe) signs peace treaty with US government
1872 (cf. Broken Arrow)
Battle of Little Big Horn
1876 (25 June), cf. LBM
Cheyenne’s Long Walk
1878
Westerns fondés sur les dualités (historio)
Kitses, “Horizons West”, 1969
Slotkin
“Regeneration through Violence”, 1973
“Gunfighter Nation”, 1992
The Frontier theory influences US foreign policy
William Appleman Williams, “The Frontier Thesis and American Foreign Policy”, 1955
Violence in westerns does not account for the true reality
Hine and Farago, “Frontiers”, 2000
Patricia Nelson Limerick
“The Legacy of Conquest”, 1983: genre, races…
