Stream During Quarantine: ‘The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance’

In writing on the politics of Hollywood westerns, John Marini once wrote, “The western, then, could look critically at the supposed virtues of progress and the forces—perhaps more virtuous—opposed to it. It did not take the superiority of civilization—or the future—for granted. The law, and civilization, too, had to justify themselves, in an almost philosophic […]