I agree. There's no reason a film that takes place in present-day
Cleveland, let us say, and featuring an elderly Vietnamese lesbian who
murders her landlord with an axe - a Guatemalen-born drug dealer who is a
former war protester uwhen he used a Jewish alias - while he is watching
a re-run of The Rifleman, should not be considered a
Western, if the purpose of the movie is to elecit a response of "Try
this, sometime, Chuck Connors!"
should not be For that reason, I'm experimenting with an
>experiential approach to genre in which genres might be defined by the
>sorts of responses that they are designed to elicit. So, a western
would
>give the spectators the feeling that they had been transported back to
the
>Old West.
Paul B. Wiener
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