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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 20:31:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 May 2013 17:53:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today, I had planned to post one of my usual pieces but as you can see that hasn&#8217;t happened. I won&#8217;t bore anyone with the mundane reasons &#8211; suffice to say that normal service shall be resumed as soon as possible. In the meantime though, this offers me the opportunity to try out something I&#8217;ve [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=livius1.wordpress.com&#038;blog=3472108&#038;post=2179&#038;subd=livius1&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bend of the River</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 May 2013 08:45:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[1950s]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[You&#8217;ll be seeing me. You&#8217;ll be seeing me. Every time you bed down for the night, you&#8217;ll look back to the darkness and wonder if I&#8217;m there. And some night, I will be. You&#8217;ll be seeing me. If you watch enough westerns, from almost any era, it soon becomes apparent that certain themes and subtexts [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=livius1.wordpress.com&#038;blog=3472108&#038;post=2146&#038;subd=livius1&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Three Bad Men: John Ford, John Wayne, Ward Bond &#8211; Scott Allen Nollen</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Apr 2013 14:09:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Biographies and critiques of the work of John Ford and John Wayne abound to be perfectly frank. As such, any new volume on these men needs to offer some different spin on familiar material, another perspective if you like. Scott Nollen&#8217;s new book &#8211; Three Bad Men:John Ford, John Wayne, Ward Bond &#8211; does so [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=livius1.wordpress.com&#038;blog=3472108&#038;post=2150&#038;subd=livius1&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Apr 2013 20:41:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[1930s]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fritz Lang]]></category>
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		<title>Ride Clear of Diablo</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Apr 2013 18:28:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[1950s]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Audie Murphy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Revenge, or at least the quest for justice, is a theme frequently featured in westerns. Relentless duplicity, on the other hand, is more often to be found in crime movies. Ride Clear of Diablo (1953) is a pretty good example of a conventional western that blends both of the aforementioned elements into its brief running [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=livius1.wordpress.com&#038;blog=3472108&#038;post=2113&#038;subd=livius1&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Apr 2013 21:17:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Growing up in an era when the TV schedules were regularly padded out with all kinds of vintage entertainment was a great experience. It meant that my tastes became eclectic without my ever realizing it. Choice of channels was limited, but that actually meant that I was exposed to a wider range of material than [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=livius1.wordpress.com&#038;blog=3472108&#038;post=2104&#038;subd=livius1&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Streets of Laredo</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Mar 2013 09:28:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Late 40s westerns are always of interest, existing as they do on the cusp of the genre&#8217;s golden age. Some are very clearly products of their era, combining elements that look back feel more light-hearted, while also displaying some of the complexity that would dominate and define the coming decade. Streets of Laredo (1949) fits [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=livius1.wordpress.com&#038;blog=3472108&#038;post=2092&#038;subd=livius1&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Mar 2013 07:27:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[1950s]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Film Noir]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last time, I had a look at a gangster/noir crossover movie, an early example of the emergence of a darker sensibility in crime movies in Hollywood. Let&#8217;s jump ahead almost two decades, to the point at which film noir was nearing the end of the classic cycle. Again, the film in question is something of [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=livius1.wordpress.com&#038;blog=3472108&#038;post=2079&#038;subd=livius1&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Johnny Apollo</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Mar 2013 14:57:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[1940s]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It seems that I&#8217;m drawn back, time and again, to what we can term transitional works, be they westerns or any other genre. I suppose that reflects my own interest in observing the general shape of cinematic development, and the progress of popular culture overall. The more hyperbolic aspects of marketing might like to encourage [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=livius1.wordpress.com&#038;blog=3472108&#038;post=2069&#038;subd=livius1&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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