10 Films that Revised the Western

Hell or High Water is shaping up to become one of the most notable modern examples of the revisioned western. To mark its release I’m going to be talking about a subgenre of one of the most celebrated traditions of American cinema: the western. Western films which have shaped both the values and heroism of the American identity but neglected its uglier bits of that identity. Revisionist westerns are a contemporary genres that use the ‘western’ setting not merely to subvert the genre but to find something deeper to say about the culture that birthed it.