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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 791
EAN: 9780851708201
ISBN: 085170820X
Label: British Film Institute
Manufacturer: British Film Institute
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 80
Publication Date: October 27, 2000
Publisher: British Film Institute
Release Date: January 22, 2008
Sales Rank: 315767
Studio: British Film Institute
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This is a detailed commentary on all aspects of the film, "The Searchers", and makes full use of material in the John Ford archive in Indiana, including Ford's own memos and the original scripts, which differs in vital respects from the film he made.
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The Searchers is a detailed film book about one of the best movies with John Wayne directed John Ford. Full of wonderful insight, background on Western films, the use of the landscape and behind-the-scene information about the crew this is a must for any fan of the movie or Westerns in general. Well organized and with a good bibliography.
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This book is even better than Buscombe's book on "Stagecoach." It is clear this movie has a stronger emotional hold on him than the earlier film. Buscombe does a very thorough job, comparing where the film deviates from the novel and the script.
He does something I have seen no other writer on "The Searchers" do, and that is to discuss the film's music, which is based on the 19th Century song "Lorena," which has a theme about separated lovers that reflects the Ethan-Martha relationship.
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This is a good introduction to the study of John Ford's films and it highlights one of his greatest, but I still believe that no-one has come close to fully analysing his retelling of the Herculean Myth. In an age where race issues were beginning to divide the country, Ford used a broad brush western to show the dangers of hysterical racism. Ethan Edwards is the most complex hero, Ford ever produced and he defies analysis. After his efforts to reunite a family, he sees he has no place at all. Buscombe has ... Read More
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