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- Title
Frontier Mythographies: Savagery and Civilization in Frederick Jackson Turner and John Ford.
- Authors
Redding, Arthur
- Abstract
The author focuses on the myth of the American frontier in the western film "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance" directed by John Ford. The author discusses historian Frederick Jackson Turner's "frontier thesis" in his 1893 paper "The Significance of the Frontier in American History," in which Turner conceives of the American frontier as the center of American individualism, democracy, and a place of struggle between savagery and civilization. The author cites Ford's western films as depicting the emergence of America in the struggle of savagery and civilization, and discusses his film "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance" in the context of the failed mythology of the frontier.
- Subjects
UNITED States; MAN Who Shot Liberty Valance, The (Film); FORD, John, 1894-1973; TURNER, Frederick Jackson, 1861-1932; FRONTIER thesis; MYTH; WESTERN films; FRONTIER &; pioneer life; UNITED States civilization; FRONTIER &; pioneer life in motion pictures
- Publication
Literature Film Quarterly, 2007, Vol 35, Issue 4, p313
- ISSN
0090-4260
- Publication type
Article