Tag: Wim Wenders

• ‘What’s wrong with putting a cowboy in Hamburg?’ Considering the influence of Hollywood ‘Westerns’ on the filmography of Wim Wenders

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  by Billy Butler “The cowboy is the archetypal American hero: in real life he conquered the West; in his celluloid form he conquered the world.” (Sandford, 1980, P.103) The American western genre perhaps encapsulates all that Hollywood has become synonymous for; epic stories where men are ultra-masculine and women ultra-feminine and where good and evil…