When it comes to discussion of “women in westerns”, viewers unfamiliar with the genre might struggle to name more than a handful of female characters, beyond Sharon Stone as The Lady in Sam Raimi’s cheese-fest, The Quick and the Dead, or the character of Mattie Ross in True Grit, and no female directors at all. […]
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