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Cautionary Tales Presents: Getting out of Dodge from Revisionist History
Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford
The Significance of Gunsmoke in American Culture
This chapter of the podcast discusses the television show Gunsmoke and its significance in American culture. The host explores the popularity of Westerns in the mid-1950s and their portrayal of big, strong men engaging in gun violence. They focus on Gunsmoke, the greatest TV Western, and analyze a specific episode to examine the absence of moral ambiguity and the abundance of guns in these shows.
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