Episode 38: True Gritty - a podcast by Xan Peters and Joe Cimino

On today's tour, we head to the Uncanny County Museum’s old saloon where our tour guides, Xan and Joe, while dressed in their cowboy cosplays, investigate the depiction of the American West presented in Cinema and its impact on the United States' cultural mythology. They survey the use of audio, visual, and literary tropes in Westerns through the decades ranging from The Great Train Robbery to True Grit (2010). All the while, discussing the costumes in Back to the Future Part III, Dude Ranches, and making a Western starring Phildelphias own Gritty...

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