John Ford

The Searchers In the film The Searchers, directed by John Ford and starring John Wayne, harmful stereotypes about Native Americans become very apparent and seem to overshadow any progressive aspects. Even though the film’s plot centers around the struggle between the Comanches and John Wayne’s band of fighters, the main focus is actually on John Wayne’s character, Ethan Edwards. Through Ethan, many stereotypes are perpetuated throughout the entire film not only about the Comanche tribe, but…

The Searchers, a film directed by John Ford (1956) is a classic American Western featuring America’s original cowboy John Wayne. In the film, the main protagonist Ethan Edwards comes home to Texas after fighting for the Confederacy in the Civil War. Both John Ford and John Wayne depict Ethan Edwards as an extremely isolated, bitter, and misunderstood character. When Ethan finally comes home from the war he mistakes one of his brother’s children for another child that has since full grown in…

of the lone cowboy, and the freedom that he is longing for. Within my genre there was a director who was known as a great. John Ford originally John Martin Feeny was an American man who was born on February 1, 1894 in Cape Elizabeth, Maine. John Ford was married by the young age of 26 to Mary. During their marriage, they were to have two children, a boy and a girl. John Ford would go on to become one of the most respected directors despite the fact that westerns were not taken seriously. “He…

The first person point of view allows Ford Madox Ford to implement different styles of rings. For example, the whole book has a conversational tone to it because of Ford's style. They wad John Dowell tells the story makes it appear like he is directly addressing the reader. This creates the conversational tone and make the story more real to the readers. Nonetheless, John Dowell sometimes has a hard time recalling specific date and events. This style Ford include make the story more believed…

The Searchers Film Review The Searchers was produced in 1956 and is a western film directed by John Ford. It is based on a 1954 novel by Alan Le May, set during the Texas/Indian Wars. The Searchers was made in the dying days of the classic Western, which faltered when Indians ceased to be typecast as savages. In the film The Searchers, John Wayne plays as Ethan Edwards, a man who has returned from the Civil War to the Texas ranch of his brother. He finds that his family has been massacred and…

Screening: The Third Man (1949): Directed by Carol Reed, this black and white film had exceptionally articulate visuals of landscapes throughout the city of Vienna in 1948. In spite of being for the most part shot around evening time and in the sewers, the director does an incredible job capturing the overall character of the city. The music was fairly interesting, and added a feeling of peculiarity to the film. Although all the actors played their roles, respectively, Orson Welles was my…

characterized in a negative light. In Stagecoach, Mexicans were almost cartoonish in their characterization. The Native Americans in the film were an afterthought as the violence that was impeding the stagecoach in its journey. John Ford’s, The Searchers, the main character, played by John Wayne, was an “Indian hating, irreconcilable Confederate” (Coyne 71), remarked Coyne. Coyne saw these characters in The Searchers as, “symbolic reminders that America’s racial problems would not go away”…

To human beings, control is the one thing they will never have, but will always desire. Control plays a prominent theme in Chapter Five of “The Grapes of Wrath”, written by John Steinbeck. This novel paints a picture of life during the time of the Dust Bowl and the Great Depression, illuminating on the struggles and perseverance of the migrants families in the Southwest. In Chapter Five, the readers learn about how the families were told they were being forced to leave by “the monster” and how…

Jane Tompkins’s West of Everything is an energetic and lively account of the most beloved and legendary American genre—The Western. Western films and novels have become a large part of many American’s lives and continues to influence filmmaking to this day. People from all over the world visit western states to have what they think is the cowboy experience. West of Everything expresses a heavy concern with the role of gender in the genre, however, and points out that it is a male dominated field…

Carlson, Eric W. "Symbolism in the Grapes of Wrath." College English 19.4 (1958): 172-75. Web. The article, “Symbolism in the Grapes of Wrath”, by Eric Carlson, is a detailed journal, published in College English, which explores the impact of John Steinbeck’s plentiful inclusion of prominent naturalistic symbols in the novel, and their effects on developing the theme. His main focus is the primary symbolic structure and how it is constructed, as well as examining Rose of Sharon’s pregnancy, the…