Tag: westerns
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The Ghosts of Movies Past–An Elegiac Wrapped in an Elegiac–“The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence”
I thought I knew what “elegiac” meant, but nonetheless looked it up before settling on my title. Roughly speaking, it means a poem or song about the past; more loosely interpreted it could be a story, a novel, etc–or a movie. It usually , literally or by implication, bids farewell to someone or something and…
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