Movies, TV shows, or books set in the American West, typically featuring cowboys, outlaws, and frontier adventures.
From Old English 'western' (of the west), referring to the American frontier; became a distinct genre in early 1900s film.
Westerns invented the anti-hero before any other genre—characters like the Man With No Name weren't good or evil, just survivalists, which influenced every morally complex character in modern TV.
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