How the West was written
May 15, 2009
How the West was written | Dario Argento and his work for Once Upon a Time in the West.
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Blood, guts and bullets
Apr 17, 2009
Blood, guts and bullets | Alex Cox on death scenes in Spaghetti Westerns.
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Howard Pyle’s pirates
May 30, 2007
The Buccaneer was a Picturesque Fellow by Howard Pyle (1905).
Seeing as how Johnny Depp and co. are sailing the Spanish Main once more (to mixed reviews, unfortunately), now is perhaps a suitable moment to note the genesis of our popular conception of buccaneers. The famous characters of the Wild West were being mythologised while [...]
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