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| Desperados | |
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| Name | Desperados |
| Type | Term with multiple cultural uses |
Desperados is a term applied across diverse cultural, commercial, and entertainment contexts, referring to outlaw figures, stylized portrayals of frontier life, and branded products. It appears in film, television, literature, comics, music, stage productions, video games, and consumer goods, intersecting with notable works, creators, companies, and venues.
The term recurs in association with iconic narratives and institutions such as Western (genre), Spaghetti Western, Hollywood, Bollywood, Academy Award, Cannes Film Festival, Sundance Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival, New York Film Festival, British Film Institute, American Film Institute, Filmoteca Española, Deutsche Kinemathek, Museum of Modern Art, British Museum, Library of Congress, Harvard University, Yale University, Oxford University, Cambridge University, Stanford University, Columbia University, University of California, Los Angeles, University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts, BBC, HBO, Netflix, Amazon Studios, Warner Bros., Universal Pictures, Paramount Pictures, 20th Century Studios, Independent film, Art film, Genre film, Box office, Film criticism, Roger Ebert, Pauline Kael, Sight & Sound, Variety, The Hollywood Reporter.
Etymological discussions often reference historical figures and events such as Billy the Kid, Jesse James, Butch Cassidy, Sundance Kid, Outlaw (United States), American Old West, Frontier (United States); scholarly treatments appear in works affiliated with Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, Routledge, Princeton University Press, Yale University Press, Harvard University Press, Columbia University Press, University of Chicago Press, and periodicals like Journal of American History, The American Historical Review, Western Historical Quarterly. Usage studies intersect with cultural theorists at University of California, Berkeley, University of Chicago, New York University, King's College London, Paris-Sorbonne University, and commentators from The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The Guardian, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Le Monde, Der Spiegel, El País.
Notable screen entries connect to directors, actors, and institutions including Sergio Leone, Clint Eastwood, John Ford, Howard Hawks, Sam Peckinpah, Quentin Tarantino, Robert Rodriguez, Sofia Coppola, George Lucas, Ridley Scott, Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola, Alejandro González Iñárritu, Pedro Almodóvar, Akira Kurosawa, Ingmar Bergman, Federico Fellini, Bernardo Bertolucci, Michelangelo Antonioni, David Lynch, Stanley Kubrick, Orson Welles, Alfred Hitchcock, Billy Wilder, Woody Allen, William Friedkin, Roman Polanski, Jean-Luc Godard, François Truffaut, Wim Wenders, Ken Loach, Peter Jackson, Christopher Nolan, Denis Villeneuve, Greta Gerwig, Jane Campion, Kathryn Bigelow, Ava DuVernay, Spike Lee, as well as series from HBO, FX, AMC (TV channel), BBC Television, ITV, Channel 4, Showtime (TV network), NBC, CBS, ABC (American TV network), Netflix, Hulu, Disney+.
Appearances in print and sequential art relate to creators and publications like Mark Twain, Cormac McCarthy, Larry McMurtry, Zane Grey, Louis L'Amour, Elmore Leonard, Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, Jim Thompson, Stephen King, Neil Gaiman, Alan Moore, Frank Miller, Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, Will Eisner, Eisner Awards, Pulitzer Prize, Man Booker Prize, Nobel Prize in Literature, Penguin Random House, HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, Hachette Livre, Macmillan Publishers, DC Comics, Marvel Comics, Image Comics, Dark Horse Comics, IDW Publishing, Vertigo (DC Comics), Heavy Metal (magazine), The New York Review of Books, Granta, The Paris Review, The Guardian, The New York Times Book Review.
Musical and theatrical uses touch figures and institutions such as Ennio Morricone, Hans Zimmer, John Williams, Bernard Herrmann, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Stephen Sondheim, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Stephen Schwartz, Jonathan Larson, Tim Rice, Elton John, Paul McCartney, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Merle Haggard, Dolly Parton, Kris Kristofferson, Loretta Lynn, Shania Twain, Garth Brooks, Madonna (entertainer), Michael Jackson, Prince (musician), Beyoncé Knowles, Adele (singer), Rolling Stones, The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Queen (band), Nashville, Tennessee, Grand Ole Opry, Royal Opera House, Metropolitan Opera, Broadway, West End (theatre district), Carnegie Hall, Sydney Opera House, La Scala.
Game titles and studios intersect with Electronic Arts, Ubisoft, Epic Games, Activision Blizzard, Valve Corporation, Nintendo, Sony Interactive Entertainment, Microsoft Studios, Rockstar Games, CD Projekt Red, Square Enix, Capcom, Konami, Sega, Bethesda Softworks, Bioware, Blizzard Entertainment, Telltale Games, LucasArts, Crytek, Remedy Entertainment, FromSoftware, Naughty Dog, Insomniac Games, Guerrilla Games, Fortnite, Grand Theft Auto, Red Dead Redemption, The Witcher, Assassin's Creed, Call of Duty, Metal Gear Solid, Uncharted, The Last of Us, Half-Life, Portal (video game), Dark Souls, God of War (series), Elden Ring, Minecraft, League of Legends, Dota 2, Counter-Strike, Overwatch, Minecraft (game), Steam (software).
Commercial uses associate with companies and markets such as Heineken N.V., Anheuser-Busch InBev, Molson Coors, Diageo, Pernod Ricard, Coca-Cola Company, PepsiCo, Nestlé, Procter & Gamble, Unilever, Kraft Heinz, L'Oréal, Apple Inc., Samsung Electronics, Google (company), Microsoft, Amazon (company), Walmart, Target Corporation, IKEA, Toyota Motor Corporation, Ford Motor Company, General Motors, BMW, Mercedes-Benz, Volkswagen, Honda Motor Co., Tesla, Inc..