I managed to get Firefly and Serenity into a Film exam answer on westerns
dealing with manifest destiny and such like.. think i might have even mentioned Easy Rider aswell, I may have been pushing the boundaries of what you can call a western a bit, got a good mark though..
(
Jorvic, Sun 11 Jul 2010, 14:29,
Reply)
No,
It's fine.
The Western genre sometimes portrays the conquest of the wilderness and the subordination of nature in the name of civilization or the confiscation of the territorial rights of the original inhabitants of the frontier.
Now, tell me that doesn't apply to the terraforming of the new worlds, and the Alliance...
(, Sun 11 Jul 2010, 14:55, Reply)