any other kind of film (American Cinema / American Culture). During these years,

roughly one-quarter of all Hollywood films were Westerns. Throughout its history, the

Western has played a crucial role in dramatizing and recreating for successive generations

of Americans the original experience of the Frontier, which shaped American character.

"High Noon (1952)", a Western directed by Fred Zinnemann, is just one example of the

characteristics, conventions, and innovations of the Western genre.

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