> The declining sense of the frontier is the result of the frontier being > redefined, even in the TNT westerns mentioned above. A perfect example would > be Purgatory (where the frontier is actually the line between the living and > the dead). There's also been a turn away from the physical frontiers of cinema Anthony Hickox's _Sundown: The Vampire in Retreat_ is a great Western sendup with a vampire theme, and it's set in present day, but still pretty blatantly a Western. There are good vampires and bad vampires, and one of the bad vampires devises wooden bullets. Scott ---- Online resources for film/TV studies may be found at ScreenSite http://www.tcf.ua.edu/ScreenSite