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MMM This page intentionally left blank John Ford’s Stagecoach StagecoachisoneoftheclassicsofHollywoodcinema.Madein1939,it revitalizedtheWesterngenre,servedasamilestoneofJohnFord’scareer, andmadeJohnWayneastar.Thisvolumeoffersarichoverviewofthe filminessaysbysixleadingfilmcritics.ApproachingStagecoachfroma varietyofcriticalperspectives,theyplacethefilmwithinthecontextsof authorship,genre,Americanhistory,andculture.Alsoexaminedarethe film’scommentaryonrace,class,gender,anddemocracy,aswellasthe film’sartistry. BarryKeithGrantisaprofessoroffilmanddirectoroftheGraduate Program in Popular Culture at Brock University. His books include The Film Studies Dictionary, Voyages of Discovery: The Cinema of Frederick Wiseman,andFilmGenreReader. THECAMBRIDGEUNIVERSITYPRESSFILMHANDBOOKSSERIES GeneralEditor: AndrewHorton,UniversityofOklahoma Each CAMBRIDGE FILM HANDBOOK is intended to focus on a single film from a variety of theoretical, critical, and contextual perspectives. This“prism”approachisdesignedtogivestudentsandgeneralreaders valuable background and insight into the cinematic, artistic, cultural, and sociopolitical importance of individual films by including essays by leading film scholars and critics. Furthermore, these handbooks by their very nature are meant to help the reader better grasp the nature of the critical and theoretical discourse on cinema as an art form, as a visual medium, and as a cultural product. Filmographies and select bibliographiesareaddedtohelpthereadergofurtherinhisorherown explorationofthefilmunderconsideration. VOLUMESINTHESERIES BusterKeaton’s“SherlockJr.”ed.byAndrewHorton,Universityof Oklahoma SpikeLee’s“DotheRightThing,”ed.byMarkReid,UniversityofFlorida Ozu’s“TokyoStory,”ed.byDavidDesser,UniversityofIllinois, Urbana–Champaign “TheGodfatherTrilogy,”ed.byNickBrowne,UniversityofCalifornia, LosAngeles Hitchcock’s“RearWindow,”ed.byJohnBelton Godard’s“PierrotleFou,”ed.byDavidWills,StateUniversityof NewYork,Albany Bun˜uel’s“TheDiscreetCharmoftheBourgeoisie,”ed.byMarshaKinder, UniversityofSouthernCalifornia Bergman’s“Persona,”ed.byLloydMichaels,AlleghenyCollege “BonnieandClyde,”ed.byLesterFriedman John Ford’s Stagecoach Edited by BARRY KEITH GRANT BrockUniversity Cambridge, New York, Melbourne, Madrid, Cape Town, Singapore, São Paulo Cambridge University Press The Edinburgh Building, Cambridge , United Kingdom Published in the United States of America by Cambridge University Press, New York www.cambridge.org Information on this title: www.cambridge.org/9780521793315 © Cambridge University Press 2003 This book is in copyright. Subject to statutory exception and to the provision of relevant collective licensing agreements, no reproduction of any part may take place without the written permission of Cambridge University Press. First published in print format 2002 - isbn-13 978-0-511-07159-1 eBook (EBL) - isbn-10 0-511-07159-0 eBook (EBL) - isbn-13 978-0-521-79331-5 hardback - isbn-10 0-521-79331-9 hardback isbn--13 978-0-521-79743-6 paperback - isbn-10 0-521-79743-8 paperback Cambridge University Press has no responsibility for the persistence or accuracy of s for external or third-party internet websites referred to in this book, and does not guarantee that any content on such websites is, or will remain, accurate or appropriate. Contents AcknowledgmentsandCredits pageix ListofContributors xi Introduction:SpokesintheWheels 1 BarryKeithGrant 1 StagecoachandHollywood’sA-Western Renaissance 21 ThomasSchatz 2 “PoweredbyaFord”?:DudleyNichols,Authorship, andCulturalEthosinStagecoach 48 CharlesJ.Maland 3 ThatPast,ThisPresent: HistoricizingJohnFord,1939 82 LelandPoague 4 “ALittleBitSavage”:StagecoachandRacial Representation 113 J.P.Telotte 5 “BeaProud,GlorifiedDreg”:Class,Gender,and FrontierDemocracyinStagecoach 132 GaylynStudlar 6 StagecoachandtheQuestforSelfhood 158 WilliamRothman vii viii CONTENTS ReviewsofStagecoach 179 WelfordBeaton,TheHollywoodSpectator(February18, 1939) 179 FrankS.Nugent,TheNewYorkTimes(March3,1939) 181 JohnMosher,TheNewYorker(March4,1939) 182 Filmography 185 SelectBibliography 233 Index 239
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