Space Western is a subgenre of science fiction that uses the themes and tropes of Westerns within science-fiction stories in an outer space setting.[1] Subtle influences may include exploration of new, lawless frontiers, while more overt influences may feature actual cowboys in outer space who use rayguns and ride robotic horses. Although initially popular, a strong backlash against perceived hack writing caused the genre to become a subtler influence until the 1980s, when it regained popularity. A further critical reappraisal occurred during the 2000s due to critical acclaim for Firefly.
^Broughton, Lee (September 19, 2016). Critical Perspectives on the Western: From A Fistful of Dollars to Django Unchained. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 29. ISBN 978-1-4422-7243-9.
SpaceWestern is a subgenre of science fiction that uses the themes and tropes of Westerns within science-fiction stories in an outer space setting. Subtle...
WesternSpaces is a collaborative album by the American ambient musicians Steve Roach and Kevin Braheny. This album is the first of Steve Roach’s many...
Space Sweepers (Korean: 승리호; Hanja: 勝利號; RR: Seungriho; lit. Spaceship Victory) is a 2021 South Korean spacewestern film directed by Jo Sung-hee, starring...
others take the Western theme and archetypes into different supergenres, such as neo-Westerns or spaceWesterns. For a time, Westerns made in countries...
defined by a Western style, including those that blend Western elements with other genres, such as SpaceWesterns. This section is for Western games that...
1930s phrase for a clichéd and formulaic Western film, and "soap opera", a melodramatic television series. Space operas emerged in the 1930s and continue...
Walt and others like that." Many spaceWesterns and science fiction Westerns can be classed within the neo-Western genre, particularly if the science...
recent entries in the Western genre have used the neo-Western subgenre, placing events in the modern day, or the spaceWestern subgenre but still draw...
The Western is a film genre defined by the American Film Institute as films which are "set in the American West that [embody] the spirit, the struggle...
the same time it is considered parent, overlapping genre of space opera and SpaceWestern. Usually, lasers are used rather than bullets. Willy Ley claimed...
recent entries in the Western genre have used the neo-Western subgenre, placing events in the modern day, or the spaceWestern subgenre but still draw...
The spaghetti Western is a broad subgenre of Western films produced in Europe. It emerged in the mid-1960s in the wake of Sergio Leone's filmmaking style...
3 Space Cowboys, 2000 Clint Eastwood film "Spaced Cowboy", a song by Sly and the Family Stone from the 1971 LP There's a Riot Goin' On SpaceWestern, a...
complement of the 'spaceWestern', which transposes Western elements into the setting of outer space. One example of a sci-fi Western would be Cowboys &...
Space warfare is combat in which one or more belligerents are situated in outer space. The scope of space warfare therefore includes ground-to-space warfare...
characters (NPCs). For instance, a strong character has additional inventory space, while a cunning character requires high charm and perception to be persuasive...
Vandenberg Space Force Base is a space launch base, launching spacecraft from the Western Range, and also performs missile testing. The United States Space Force's...
Space Rage, also known as Space Rage: Breakout on Prison Planet is a 1985 American spaceWestern film directed by Conrad E. Palmisano. Two centuries in...
revisionist Western (also called the anti-Western) is a sub-genre of the Western film. Called a post-classical variation of the traditional Western, the revisionist...
established the Western Development Division, the world's first dedicated space organization, under General Bernard Schriever and unified its space forces under...
manages the Western Range and launch activities for the Space Force, Department of Defense, NASA, and other private space corporations. The Space Launch Delta...
with the spaceWestern, which, having its roots in science fiction, contains elements of the Western genre, but is generally in an outer space setting...
Weird West (aka Weird Western) is a term used for the hybrid genres of fantasy Western, horror Western and science fiction Western. The term originated...
City (2012–2013), the ABC drama Revenge (2014–2015), and the Netflix spaceWestern Cowboy Bebop (2021). She has also made appearances on superhero-themed...
variation of the Western films. The word "Ostern" is a portmanteau derived from the German word Ost, meaning "East", and the English word "western". The term...
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