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    Kristen Stewart and Cowboy Music: The Week in Pop-Culture Writing

    Highlights from seven days of reading about arts and entertainment
    by The Editors Mar 19, 2017 3 minutes
    Source: Evan Agostini / Invision / AP

    Josephine Livingstone | “The problem with this type of characterization is that it defines Stewart’s magic through a gendered absence. Stewart refuses to give herself over to the audience, these critics say, and so she is mysterious and effective through a logic of subtraction. This mysterious woman is a little Dream Girl-ish, if not outright Manic Pixie. How nice to have a leading lady who plays hard to get. But we don’t have

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