Politics, culture, and civic virtue in the films of John Ford
By: edited by Sidney A. Pearson Jr.
Contributors: Pearson, Sidney A.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield; Lexington Books
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Lanham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 206
ISBN-13: 9780739135624; 9780739135631; 9780739135648
Subjects: Ford, John, -- 1894-1973 -- Criticism and interpretation
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Sidney A. Pearson, Jr.; title: Defending the West: John Ford and the creation of the epic Western / John Marini; title: The blessings of civilization: John Ford's Stagecoach / Brigid McMenamin; title: John Ford's revolutionary Americans: Drums along the Mohawk / David K. Nichols; title: Modernity and the destruction of boundaries: John Ford's The grapes of wrath / Anne R. Pierce; title: On the threshold of modernity: John Ford's How green was my valley / Matthew J. Franck and Gwen Brown; title: Heroes and political communities in John Ford's Westerns: the role of Wyatt Earp in My darling Clementine / Mary P. Nichols; title: The Western and the western drama: John Ford's The Searchers and the Oresteia / Paul A. Cantor; title: Heroic virtue and the limits of democracy in John Ford's The searchers / J. David Alvis and John E. Alvis; title: Honor, duty, and civic virtue: John Ford's Mr. Roberts and The last hurrah / James F. Pontuso; title: Why it is tough to be the second toughest guy in a tough town: John Ford's The man who shot Liberty Valance / Sidney A. Pearson, Jr.