What follows here is a genre-based analysis of the film Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, written for my American Cinema class.  Like my previous piece on Terminator 2, this assignment required 2-3 citations from our textbook, and had a fairly strict cap on length.  As such it is necessarily incomplete from the standpoint of either a review or a proper analysis, but I still thought it might be interesting to our readers here at A Nerd Occurrence.  Please enjoy, but as always if you’re in a film class yourself, please don’t steal from me.  Watch the movie, do the work.  It’s a lot more fun that way.  All citations are taken from the textbook American Cinema, American Culture, by John Belton.  It’s a good read if you’re serious about film history and context, I recommend picking it up.  Finally, I should warn you that if you’re concerned about spoilers for a 43-year-old movie, this article definitely has some of those.

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