What Happened to the Space Western?
The Space Western is one of my favorite genres of all time. Let's talk about what happened to it.
(Apologies for the few graphical errors in the final video. Adobe would not let me render the video without them for some reason)
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🎬 CHAPTERS 🎬
0:00 Intro
2:00 Gold Bars to Silver Screen
4:47 Pulp Fiction
9:27 Revisionist Future History
13:46 Do Android Cowboys Dream of Wrangling Electric Sheep?
19:32 Running In the 90s
22:46 You Can't Take The Sky From Me
26:21 Million Dollar Mandalorian
28:49 What Happened to the Space Western
34:00 The Point
🔗 LINKS 🔗
Star Trek pitch bible ➜ https://web.archive.org/web/20....160512162509/http://
November 1933 issue of Weird Tales ➜ https://archive.org/details/We....ird_Tales_v22n05_193
Galaxy Science Fiction back cover ➜ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/....File:GalaxyOct50rear
Turkey City lexicon ➜ https://www.sfwa.org/2009/06/1....8/turkey-city-lexico
Tarantino interview ➜ https://danratherjournalist.or....g/interviewer/cultur
Tarantino writeup ➜ https://www.spectator.com.au/2....019/06/quentin-taran
Space Western wiki page ➜ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Western
Science Fiction Western wiki page ➜ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/....Science_fiction_West
The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy ➜ https://books.google.ca/books?id=3JXnz9x9sO4C&pg=PA888&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false
Encyclopedia of Weird Westerns ➜ https://books.google.ca/books?id=HDnHo993Dv0C&pg=PA4&redir_esc=y
The Emancipation of Bat Durston ➜ https://www.spacewesterns.com/....articles/the-emancip
History of the Hays Code ➜ https://www.american-historama.....org/1929-1945-depre
Additional Hays Code info ➜ http://www.screenonline.org.uk/film/id/592022/
Galaxy Rangers Rockets to Disc ➜ https://www.animationmagazine.....net/2004/10/galaxy-r
Spaghetti Westerns and Sergio Leone ➜ https://italysegreta.com/spagh....etti-westerns-and-se
Neo-Noir: The New Film Noir Style ➜ https://web.archive.org/web/20....131104224706/http://
The Norton Book of Science Fiction ➜ https://openlibrary.org/books/....OL7458916M/The_Norto
Dissolving Literature and Film in Blade Runner ➜ https://link.springer.com/chap....ter/10.1057/97811374
‘Akira’ is Frequently Cited as Influential. Why is That? ➜ https://filmschoolrejects.com/....akira-influence-12cb
Three Decades of Akira Slide Homages ➜ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9hCzjBc7Q4
Cowboy Bebop x Blade Runner - Cycle of Influence ➜ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxTDa6FK2iE
Firefly schedule released ➜ https://web.archive.org/web/20....120805120426/http://
'Firefly' feature alights ➜ https://web.archive.org/web/20....110629170540/http://
How the Space Western Evolved from Star Trek to The Outer Worlds ➜ https://www.escapistmagazine.c....om/how-the-space-wes
The Mandalorian is described as Clint Eastwood in Star Wars ➜ https://ew.com/tv/2019/04/14/t....he-mandalorian-star-
‘The Mandalorian’ Finally Beats Michael Scott and Co. in Nielsen’s Streaming Top 10 ➜ https://variety.com/2021/tv/li....sts/tv-ratings-the-m
Jon Favreau and Pedro Pascal on Creating a Western on Steroids ➜ https://variety.com/2019/tv/fe....atures/the-mandalori
'Star Trek' Lives Despite Taboos ➜ https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=QPFOAAAAIBAJ&pg=7135,2042483