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Ideologiczne i polityczne aspekty klasycznego westernu na przykładzie "Winchester`73" oraz "Gwiazda szeryfa" Antony`ego Manna

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The article presents political analysis of two classic westerns directed by Anthony Mann - "Winchester 73" and "Tin Star". The author took up three problems. Firstly, westerns are treated as political myths functioning in the collective consciousness by which communities can handle universal political problems (e.g. relations between individuaI and society; fundamental conditions of public order). Secondly, the contextual analysis of both films has been conducted. Despite many similarities between the movies (the same genre, the same creative concept, the same narrative scheme), both of them differ ideologically. "Winchester'73" (1950)expresses the conservative message while "Tin Star" the liberal and progressive one. The author believes that this ideological shift has been associated with the process of general transformation on the level of collective consciousness 306 Ideologiczne i polityczne aspekty klasycznego westernu... in the United States in the 1950s, which was later reflected by the struggle for civil rights in the 1960s. Thirdly, it has been proved that even in the case of strongly com/entional genres, ideological content of a film shows contradictions and internal tensions, just like every ideology.