Write On! Features: From Dodge City To Gotham City: How The Western Shapes The Superhero Story by Joseph Dodd
By Joseph Dodd
In the history of film, there have been, I think, two genres that, in their own times, dominated and shaped cinema. The first was the Western. The second, currently, is the superhero film. If these two apparently unrelated forms can rise to such prominence, there must be something ...