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  2. Mar 19, 2020 · In the wake of the failure of 2013's The Lone Ranger, Michael Agresta of The Atlantic took a long look at why Westerns were declining. Among the many factors Agresta covers, he mentions "the...

  3. Jul 6, 2023 · After the mid-1970s however, audiences have been limited to a handful of revisionist and neo-Westerns, of which there are popular entries only every few years – often longer. Here's why the genre lost its popularity despite being beloved only fifty years ago. Clint Eastwood & John Wayne's Feud Explained.

  4. Jul 24, 2013 · Movie Westerns have been tracking that loss for a century. Now, as The Lone Ranger leaves theaters this month, that sense of loss begins to expand to cowboy movies themselves.

  5. There’s little coincidence that the moment westerns died was the same moment that America underwent it’s greatest cultural shift in a century. The death of the western genre in the mid-1960’s was very much like the death of the west itself in 1890.

  6. www.theatlantic.com › entertainment › archiveWhat the Western Means Now

    Jun 17, 2014 · June 17, 2014. In recent years, the cowboy has been replaced by the superhero as the most common expression of American values in blockbuster filmmaking. But the decline of the...

  7. Aug 28, 2017 · The genre drastically slowed down in the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s, but films like Tombstone, The Outlaw Josey Wales, and Unforgiven still impacted the box office and hold their own today. Recently, however, the last few Westerns flopped on the silver screen. Disney.

  8. Oct 5, 2016 · How Hollywood Whitewashed the Old West. For decades, the film industry has obscured the role people of color played in the American frontier. Today, movies are trying to reckon with that past. By...

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