How Sam Peckinpah Used the death of the West to talk about a changing America
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Welcome to the seventh and final article in the Westerns 101 series on Lewton Bus. If you missed them, here’s what came before: 1. Introduction 2. A Bit of History 3. Defining the Western 4. The Essentials 5. Revisionism Before the Revisionists 6. The Spaghetti Western As the 1960s drew to a close, the traditional
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Welcome to the sixth article in the Westerns 101 series on Lewton Bus. Here’s what you may have missed: 1. Introduction 2. A Bit of History 3. Defining the Western 4. The Essentials 5. Revisionism Before the Revisionists When it comes to Spaghetti Westerns, there is Sergio Leone, and there’s everyone else. That doesn’t mean
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Welcome to the fifth article in the Westerns 101 series on Lewton Bus. In case you missed them, here’s what we’ve done so far: 1. Introduction 2. A Bit of History 3. Defining the Western 4. The Essentials Most casual movie fans are aware of a major cultural shift in Hollywood in the late 1960s
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