"cowboy shot" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From the framing of cinema shots in Westerns, where the holster and gun needed to be in view along with the actor's face.",
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          "ref": "2002, Blain Brown, Cinematography, page 12:",
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        "A shot framed to include a region from the actor's head to mid-thigh."
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          "thigh",
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        "(film) A shot framed to include a region from the actor's head to mid-thigh."
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          "sense": "shot framed from head to mid-thigh",
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          "word": "piano americano"
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          "sense": "shot framed from head to mid-thigh",
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          "word": "plan amerykański"
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        "(film) A shot framed to include a region from the actor's head to mid-thigh."
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  "word": "cowboy shot"
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