The Searchers

by Eckstein, Arthur M. (CON); Henderson, Brian (CON); Grimsted, David (CON); Pye, Douglas (CON); Studlar, Gaylyn (CON)

• ISBN13: 9780814330562
• ISBN10: 0814330568
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-02-01
• Publisher: Wayne State Univ Pr

Summary

A series of in-depth examinations of the motion picture many consider to be Hollywood's finest western film.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
Preface: A Film That Fits a Lot of Descriptions
Peter Lehman	xi
Introduction: Main Critical Issues in The Searchers
Arthur M. Eckstein	1	(46)
The Searchers: An American Dilemma
Brian Henderson	47	(28)
John Wayne and The Searchers
William Luhr	75	(18)
Sermons in Stone: Monument Valley in The Searchers
Richard Hutson	93	(16)
"Typically American": Music for The Searchers
Kathryn Kalinak	109	(36)
Homer's Iliad and John Ford's The Searchers
Martin Winkler	145	(26)
What Would Martha Want? Captivity, Purity, and Feminine Values in The Searchers
Gaylyn Studlar	171	(26)
Incest and Miscegenation in The Searchers (1956) and The Unforgiven (1959)
Arthur M. Eckstein	197	(26)
Double Vision: Miscegenation and Point of View in The Searchers
Douglas Pye	223	(16)
"You Couldn't Hit It on the Nose": The Limits of Knowledge in and of The Searchers
Peter Lehman	239	(26)
"That Don't Make You Kin!": Borderlands History and Culture in The Searchers
James F. Brooks	265	(24)
Re-searching
David Grimstead	289	(46)
Native American Reactions to The Searchers
Tom Grayson Colonnese	335	(8)
Film Credits	343	(2)
Selected Bibliography	345	(10)
Index	355