While there were occasional outliers like Lawrence Kasdan's 'Silverado' and Clint Eastwood's 'Pale Rider,' for the most part, the responsibility the genre had to reflect and shape American values was taken up by either science fiction movies like 'The Terminator' or urban cop films like '48HRS.'
The box office and awards success of Kevin Costner's 'Dances With Wolves' in 1990, followed by Clint Eastwood's triumphant return to the genre in 1992 with 'Unforgiven,' suddenly made Westerns commercially viable again.
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