Space Western
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Serenity (2005) is a film follow-up to Joss Whedon’s Firefly franchise that mixes the space western genre with science fiction, featuring western tropes such as the cowboy with its gear, posse, guns, saloons, and shootouts while offering a timely commentary on the culture of fear, fear of the outsider as well as authoritarianisms of the… Read more
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Peter Hyams’ Outland (1981) is heavily inspired by High Noon, featuring Sean Connery as the marshal of a mining colony on Jupiter’s moon Io who struggles to find the necessary support from the community in order to fight injustice. In this film, injustice manifests itself as both the physical and psychological exploitation of workers by… Read more
