Traditional notions of African American culture in the 1920s are based on urban communities during…
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Buster Keaton loves an underdog. Most of his protagonists are down on their luck, or…
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Looking back at John Ford’s 3 Bad Men today, it would be easy to call…
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I’m on the record as not liking Westerns, and yet I keep writing about them.…
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Conventional wisdom is the Western changed forever sometime in the late ‘60s, dividing the genre…
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I would hazard a guess that contemporary cultural politics hasn’t been kind to Sergeant Rutledge,…
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High Noon’s reputation rests on being a “Western for people who don’t like Westerns.” Since…
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Oy, another comic book movie! Malaria (2013) dir. Edson Oda Making an auspicious feature film…
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The Big Trail was the beginning and the end of a lot of things. It…
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I don’t like Westerns…except for all the Westerns I like. No matter how many Westerns…
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