Genre : Western

Experimental Western : The Great Train Robbery (Dir. Edwin S. Porter, 1903)

Experimental : Early films that help to form conventions

Classic Western : Stagecoach (Dir. John Ford, 1939)

Classic : The phase of films that establish narrative conventions of genre. This is part of this genre’s most successful and defining period

Parody Western : Rango (Dir. Gore Verbinski, 2011)

Parody : These are films that mimicked the genre in some comical way

Deconstruction Western : Django Unchained (Dir. Quentin Tarantino, 2012)

Deconstruction : This is the phase where films which have taken generic elements of a genre and amalgamated/merged them into sub genres