This article was originally published in 2021 and has been updated to include The Power of the Dog. America can only claim a few art forms as its own. Jazz, for sure. Comic books, certainly. It’s probably safe to add the We… See more

Some of the greatest Westerns ever made tweak the genre’s traditions and expectations — traditions and expectations created by countless films that like their good guys to wear white hats, their bad guys to be i… See more

At the other end of the spectrum lies what back in the ’60s used to be called “the revisionist Western,” though its influence has so permeated the genre that it’s hard to tell where traditionalism ends and revisionis… See more

Watch enough classic Westerns and it’s easy to conclude — leaving out a few exceptions — that African-Americans rarely had a role to play in the Old West, or at best kept to the margins of the stories that defined it. T… See more