Clint Eastwood (at age 91!) comes out with another Western. What does that mean for the genre? What are the tropes and history of the Western story? And what took so long for this book to get adapted? Let’s dive in and learn together!

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Extras:

  • trailer, Cry Macho (2021) https://bit.ly/crymacho1
  • trailer, Every Which Way But Loose (1978) https://bit.ly/crymacho2
  • newspaper article interview, author N. Richard Nash https://bit.ly/crymacho3
  • article, on producer Al Ruddy https://bit.ly/crymacho4
  • article, on Revisionist Westerns https://bit.ly/crymacho5
  • article, on the decline of Westerns https://bit.ly/crymacho6
  • book, Cry Macho: A Novel (1975) https://bit.ly/crymacho7

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