western genre convention

Western Films.

Iconography

'The good, the bad and the ugly" follows a series of various conventions and properties that define it as being in the western genre for example, key settings and aspects of mise en scene.

• Costumes
• Desert settings 
• Old country and mexican music    
• Pistols
• Horses
• 1890-1910 era
• Western american / mexican region
• Stand offs

All of these features are very common amongst western films and help to determine how generic a western film is.

Narrative

Often in the Western film genre there is the Strauss narrative theory of binary opposition for example good verses evil. Furthermore western films also contain hints of Todorovs narrative theory in the way that the film builds up to a crescendo, which ultimately restores the equilibrium.