A genre is a categorization of certain types of art based upon their style, form, or content. ... Other elements include cowboys, Indians, horses, lassos, guns, cattle drives, and, sometimes, a little romance. ... This conflict is expressed in a variety of oppositions, including cowboy versus Indian, town versus wilderness, and social order versus anarchy (Dirk, "Western Films" 1). ... Another example of a western movie is Dances With Wolves (1990), which is about a Civil War soldier, John Dunbar, who studies the lifestyle of a band of Sioux Indians, and then joins them, taking the name Danc...

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