The guy from harlem5/29/2023 ![]() The cinema has also immortalized the cowboy as a white man, erasing the Black Americans who made up one-fourth of the wranglers and riders of the American frontier. The cinema helped immortalize the cowboy, rendering him, in many ways, inseparable from its cultural tradition. The Western film genre is unique to a specific period and place and is, as such, instantly recognizable. But a cursory Google search will offer that this credit has been attributed to a number of other titles that came long before Samuel and even the oldest members of his all-star cast were even born. ![]() ![]() Plenty of recent media stories on Jeymes Samuel’s “The Harder They Fall” have played up the Western’s all-Black cast, with many describing the film as a “corrective” to the popular Hollywood image of an all-white Old West.
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