Transformation of the Western Genre through the Last Decade: Dramaturgy and Production Aspects

Cinema (cinematography) is one of the fastest-developing forms of art, that proves a variety of weekly released films around the world and also at the scale of private and public development of this industry. As fast as the film industry is developing, the genres of cinema are also evolving. One of these genres that are changing from within in cinema art is the Western. It had existed almost from the very beginning of the history of cinema and doesn't lose its relevance. The main goal of the final qualification work is the identification of the artistic components of neo-western cinema genre, and also the determination of the producer's approaches to the realisation of the films in this genre. The main problem of the scientific work is the absence of a unified theoretical conception within which to study the transformation of the Western genre in the last decade. The research paper describes the author's typification of the Western subgenres, in particular, it was possible to identify the main structural, stylistic and socio-cultural features characteristics of the neo-Western. The method of analyzing the transformation of the genre was described here and also the works of the last decade that have had some success yet. During the study, the concepts of metamodernism in the neo-western world, expressed in an open philosophical socio-cultural discourse on the justification of violence, gender equality, and individualism in the era of an indifferent society, were clarified and confirmed.