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Overview"In many ways a traditional western, """"The Searchers"""" (1956) is considered by critics to be one of the greatest Hollywood films, made by the most influential of western directors. But John Ford's classic work, in its complexity and ambiguity, was a product of post-World War II American culture and sparked a deconstruction of the western film myth by looking unblinkingly at white racism and violence and suggesting its social and psychological origins. The film tells the story of the kidnapping of the niece of Ethan Edwards (John Wayne) by Comanche Indians and Edward's long search to find her - ultimately not to rescue her, since he finds her racially and sexually violated. This text brings historians and film scholars together to cover the major critical issues of the film as seen through a contemporary prism. It also contains a sustained reaction to the film by Native Americans. The essays explore a range of topics: from John Wayne's grim character of Ethan Edwards, to the actual history of Indian captivity on the southern Plains, as well as the role of the film's music, setting and mythic structure - all of which should help the reader to understand what makes """"The Searchers"""" such an enduring work." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Arthur M. Eckstein , Peter R. LehmanPublisher: Wayne State University Press Imprint: Wayne State University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.526kg ISBN: 9780814330562ISBN 10: 0814330568 Pages: 440 Publication Date: 28 February 2004 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviewsThe Searchers: Essays and Reflections on John Ford's Classic Western goes beyond auteur issues with striking formulations of the historical, social, and even geographical context surrounding the film. . . . The result is the best kind of auteur and genre criticism, deepening our appreciation of a film classic, providing new information on its production, [and] intelligent treatment of its thematic richness and connection to American history and culture. --Stephen Prince Virginia Tech, author of Classical Film Violence: Designing and Regulating Brutality in Hollywood Cinema, 1930-1968 The unique appeal of The Searchers lies in its essential irrationality, its mystery, its refusal of conventional narrative logic. Nowhere is this clearer than in the responses to the film found in an engaging new anthology of essentially adulatory essays on the film edited by Arthur Eckstein and Peter Lehman. --Film Quarterly A richer, highly ambitious book is the collection of essays on The Searchers edited by Arthur M. Echstein and Peter Lehman. The quality of the writing in this book is consistently high, and each contributor approaches his/her essay with an in-depth knowledge of The Searchers. This collection offers a series of comprehensive, accessible and authoritative essays on a film that will continue to intrigue and enthrall us for the foreseeable future. It won't be the last-ever word on The Searchers; but as an anthology of disparate interpretations, it deserves to be the definitive one. --Film International A richer, highly ambitious book is the collection of essays on The Searchers edited by Arthur M. Echstein and Peter Lehman. The quality of the writing in this book is consistently high, and each contributor approaches his/her essay with an in-depth knowledge of The Searchers. This collection offers a series of comprehensive, accessible and authoritative essays on a film that will continue to intrigue and enthrall us for the foreseeable future. It won't be the last-ever word on The Searchers; but as an anthology of disparate interpretations, it deserves to be the definitive one. --Film International The unique appeal of The Searchers lies in its essential irrationality, its mystery, its refusal of conventional narrative logic. Nowhere is this clearer than in the responses to the film found in an engaging new anthology of essentially adulatory essays on the film edited by Arthur Eckstein and Peter Lehman. --Film Quarterly The Searchers: Essays and Reflections on John Ford's Classic Western goes beyond auteur issues with striking formulations of the historical, social, and even geographical context surrounding the film. . . . The result is the best kind of auteur and genre criticism, deepening our appreciation of a film classic, providing new information on its production, [and] intelligent treatment of its thematic richness and connection to American history and culture. --Stephen Prince Virginia Tech, author of Classical Film Violence: Designing and Regulating Brutality in Hollywood Cinema, 1930-1968 Author InformationArthur M. Eckstein is professor of History at University of Maryland. Peter Lehman is Director of the Interdisciplinary Humanities Program at Arizona State University. He is author of Roy Orbison: The Invention of an Alternative Rock Masculinity and editor of Masculinity: Bodies, Movies, Culture. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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