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Briscoe Western Art Museum Summer Film Series “The Shootist” End the summer with John Wayne's final film role in 1976’s “The Shootist”. Wayne, portraying a dying gunfighter, spends his last days looking for a way to die with a minimum of pain and a maximum of dignity. Summer Film Series features an iconic Western film with guest curator Dr. Andrew Patrick Nelson introducing the movie and explaining how it relates to Still in the Saddle: A New History of the Hollywood Western, the Briscoe’s fantastic summer exhibition. The film is free with museum general admission. Enjoy popcorn, candy, food truck grub, and free beer courtesy of Ranger Creek Brewery. ....
Texas Public Radio Still in the Saddle is the title of a new exhibition at the Briscoe Museum that examines westerns of the 1970s and 1980s. For a guy who earns his spurs today writing about westerns, Andrew Patrick Nelson wasn’t a fan as a young boy. “I grew up in the superhero and science fiction-saturated popular culture of the ‘80s and ‘90s,” Nelson explains. “Westerns weren’t something I really encountered until I started studying film in college. And once I started watching them, I just became hooked.” Nelson’s writing on westerns concentrates on the time period following the classic era, which was defined by stoic riders, noble sheriffs, outlaws, and one-sided portrayals of Native Americans. By the 1960s, a new generation of filmmakers and stars turned Hollywood on its head following the collapse of the studio system, and audiences hungered for more complex storylines and portrayals of the frontier. ....