MIT 21L.011 The Film Experience, Fall 2013
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Instructor: David Thorburn
The Western as a genre form, exemplifying Hollywood cinema's emergence as a central form of storytelling ("consensus narrative") for the founding myths of the United States. Films discussed: McCabe and Mrs. Miller.
00:00 OCW Intro
00:25 Movies as consensus narrative
12:32 Historical/cultural background
28:13 The western as cultural myth
37:15 McCabe and Mrs. Miller
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