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Print the Legend
Politics, Culture, and Civic Virtue in the Films of John Ford
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2009
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In Print the Legend: Politics, Culture, and Civic Virtue in the Films of John Ford, a collection of writers explore Ford's view of politics, popular culture, and civic virtue in some of his best films: Drums Along the Mohawk, The Searchers, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, Stagecoach, How Green Was My Valley, and The Last Hurrah. John Ford, more than most motion picture directors, invites his viewers into a serious discussion of these themes. For instance, one can consider Plato's timeless question 'What is justice?' in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, vengeance as classical Greek tragedy in The Searchers, or ethnic politics in The Last Hurrah. Ford's films never grow stale or seem dated because he continually probes the most important questions of our civic culture: what must we do to survive, prosper, pursue happiness, and retain our common decency as a regime? Further, viewing them from a distance of time, we are subtly invited to ask whether anything has been lost or gained since Ford celebrated the civic virtues of an earlier America. Is Ford's America an idealized America or a lost America?
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Copyright year
2009
ISBN-Print
978-0-7391-3562-4
ISBN-Online
978-0-7391-3564-8
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
196
Product type
Edited Book
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Introduction No access
Chapter 01. Defending the West: John Ford and the Creation of the Epic Western No access Pages 1 - 20
Chapter 02. The Blessings of Civilization: John Ford’s Stagecoach No access Pages 21 - 36
Chapter 03. John Ford’s Revolutionary Americans: Drums Along the Mohawk No access Pages 37 - 48
Chapter 04. Modernity and the Destruction of Boundaries: John Ford’s The Grapes of Wrath No access Pages 49 - 64
Chapter 05. On the Threshold of Modernity: John Ford’s How Green Was My Valley No access Pages 65 - 84
Chapter 06. Heroes and Political Communities in John Ford’s Westerns: The Role of Wyatt Earp in My Darling Clementine No access Pages 85 - 100
Chapter 07. The Western and Western Drama: John Ford’s The Searchers and the Oresteia No access Pages 101 - 132
Chapter 08. Heroic Virtue and the Limits of Democracy in John Ford’s The Searchers No access Pages 133 - 156
Chapter 09. Honor, Duty, and Civic Virtue: John Ford’s Mr. Roberts and The Last Hurrah No access Pages 157 - 168
Chapter 10. Why It Is Tough to Be the Second-Toughest Guy in a Tough Town: John Ford’s The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance No access Pages 169 - 188
Index No access Pages 189 - 192
About the Contributors No access Pages 193 - 196
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