“The Western was always an oblique way of writing history for a nation with more sense of drama than faith in fact. However inaccurate, the Western is the first large attempt by Americans to express what has happened to them” (David Thomson). In this series, British film critic David Thomson presents several “post-” or “neo-Westerns” that reflect the demythification of the Western's values and icons, and explore “what happened” to Americans...after the Western. David Thomson is the author of Biographical Dictionary of Films.
