>>So not so much deconstruction as ultraviolent revisionism. Like Sam
>>Peckinpah westerns!
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>I don't know the reference, but sure! :D

Sam Peckinpah was a film director who made a number of Westerns in the '60s and '70s, in between the era of the "spaghetti" Westerns and the "modernized" Western revival of the '90s. His films weren't full-on deconstructions of the genre, because they didn't set out to show that the West was nothing like they were depicted in earlier films, but they took the stock Western tropes and made them all darker and edgier (hence "revisionist"). Peckinpah's Westerns don't have white hats and black hats, the best they have are antiheroes, and the violence, of which there is a lot, is exaggerated and hyper-stylized (some would say "fetishized").

Weirdly, he also directed Convoy (the trucker comedy based on the C.W. McCall song).

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