frontier capitalism

His films like 'Aguirre, the Wrath of God' and 'Fitzcarraldo' explore obsessive individualism and the collision between human ambition and untamed wilderness at capitalism's frontiers.

His Western masterpieces examine the violent expansion of American capitalism, the displacement of indigenous peoples, and the mythology of frontier conquest and individualism.

His spaghetti westerns deconstruct the romance of frontier capitalism, depicting lawless desert economies, greed-driven violence, and the moral bankruptcy of the American frontier myth.