>This was posted to SCREEN-L. I thought you folks might be able to help. > Private email would probably do. > >ubj: Scifi film using Western genre characteristics >Date: 11/12/97 2:57:26 PM Eastern Standard Time >From: [log in to unmask] (Andrew Thompson) >Sender: [log in to unmask] (Film and TV Studies Discussion List) >Reply-to: [log in to unmask] (Film and TV Studies Discussion List) >To: [log in to unmask] > >I am a student in an introductory level film course at Fitchburg State >College in Mass. I am researching science fiction films that are made with >the typical Western genre characteristics. These would include a hero with >a strong code of ethics who stands alone and faces the problem (man against >nature, lawlessness, greedy industrialist/ranchers) and then resolves the >situation by being the "fastest draw." "Star Wars" would be an example. >I'd love to hear from anyone with an opinion or reference. >Kerry Thompson >_________________ > >Leann >http://www.freeyellow.com/members2/buzzreview/index.html Apart from STAR WARS (with its homage to THE SEARCHERS), ones I could name include MOON ZERO TWO, OBLIVION, BACKLASH: OBLIVION 2, OUTLAND, WELCOME TO BLOOD CITY, WESTWORLD, BATTLE BEYOND THE STARS, and THE LOVE WAR (1970) to name just a few. ---- Screen-L is sponsored by the Telecommunication & Film Dept., the University of Alabama.