‘Logan’ And The Evolution Of Film Genres [Video Essay]
By Ethan Anderton/June 2, 2017 6:00 am EST
Watch the Logan film genre video essay after the jump.
When you take a close look at how director James Mangold uses the classic western Shane as a key thematic piece of Logan, you begin to understand how the filmmaker not only uses the film to create an emotional core for Logan, but also, perhaps inadvertently, illustrates how the western genre is closely tied to superhero movies and hw they have evolved over their relatively short period of popularity in cinema.
