id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-5803 Western (genre) - Wikipedia .html text/html 12487 1484 71 The American Film Institute defines Western films as those "set in the American West that [embody] the spirit, the struggle and the demise of the new frontier."[7] The term Western, used to describe a narrative film genre, appears to have originated with a July 1912 article in Motion Picture World magazine.[8] Most of the characteristics of Western films were part of 19th-century popular Western fiction and were firmly in place before film became a popular art form.[9] Western films commonly feature protagonists such as cowboys, gunslingers, and bounty hunters, who are often depicted as semi-nomadic wanderers who wear Stetson hats, bandannas, spurs, and buckskins, use revolvers or rifles as everyday tools of survival–and as a means to settle disputes using "frontier justice". ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-5803.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-5803.txt