Lee Clark Mitchell on RED RIVER
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This interview with scholar Lee Clark Mitchell, author of “Westerns: Making the Man in Fiction and Film,” delves into the cultural history and trademarks of western genre literature and film, framing RED RIVER and the novel’s author, Borden Chase, within these terms.
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