The Wonder Years and Revisionist Pop Punk
By Clayton Ambrose Music Journalist In the realm of film criticism, there exists a genre named the “revisionist Western." This is a sub-genre of Western films where cliches and running themes of the genre are subverted, often playing with grey morality and re-shaping or completely disregarding the messages inherent in the John Wayne-era’s shiny and heroic portrayal of the realistically bloody and depraved wild, wild West. Revisionist Westerns seem preoccupied […]
