Post-Westerns: Cinema, Region, WestDuring the post World War II period, the Western, like America's other great film genres, appeared to collapse as a result of revisionism and the emergence of new forms. Perhaps, however, as theorists like Gilles Deleuze suggest, it remains, simply "maintaining its empty frame." Yet this frame is far from empty, as Post Westerns shows us: rather than collapse, the Western instead found a new form through which to scrutinize and question the very