[lbo-talk] The Searchers

[Michael Hoover]

>>> furuhashi.1 at osu.edu 11/16/05 9:48 PM >>>
The Searchers didn't get any Oscar nomination, though John Ford won  
many Academy awards for other films (I don't know how it fared at the  
box office).  The film's portrayal of Ethan was too disturbing for  
critics then.  I don't know when and how the film began to climb up  
to its current exalted status in film criticism.  Probably it was  
"discovered" by the French (Cahiers Du Cinema, etc.) like many other  
American films were.
Yoshie Furuhashi
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goodness, the stuff one can find on the internet, the 'world' at one's
fingertips...    mh

The Searchers remains a hugely influential film. It is often cited as a seminal 
influence by filmmakers as diverse as those of the French New Wave and the 
American directors who came of age in the late 1960s and early 1970s*most 
notably Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola, and Brian DePalma. 

Further Reading:
Courtney, Susan. "Looking For (Race and Gender) Trouble in Monument Valley.
" Qui Parle. Vol. 6, No. 2, 1993, 97-130.

Lehman, Peter. "Texas 1868 / America 1956: The Searchers. " In Close Viewings: 
A New Anthology of Film Criticism. Tallahassee, Florida State University Press, 
1990, 387-415.

Nolley, Ken. "John Ford and the Hollywood Indian." Film & History. Vol. 23, No. 
1-4, 1993, 44-56.

Skerry, Philip J. "What Makes a Man to Wander? Ethan Edwards of John Ford's The Searchers. " New Orleans Review. Vol. 18, No. 4, 1991, 86-91.
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