The Searchers : Essays and Reflections on John Ford's Classic Western

Acknowledgments ix Preface: A Film That Fits a Lot of Descriptions Peter Lehman xi Introduction: Main Critical Issues in The Searchers Arthur M. Eckstein 1(46) The Searchers: An American Dilemma Brian Henderson 47(28) John Wayne and The Searchers William Luhr 75(18) Sermons in Stone: Monument Valley in The Searchers Richard Hutson 93(16) "Typically American": Music for The Searchers Kathryn Kalinak 109(36) Homer's Iliad and John Ford's The Searchers Martin Winkler 145(26) What Would Martha Want? Captivity, Purity, and Feminine Values in The Searchers Gaylyn Studlar 171(26) Incest and Miscegenation in The Searchers (1956) and The Unforgiven (1959) Arthur M. Eckstein 197(26) Double Vision: Miscegenation and Point of View in The Searchers Douglas Pye 223(16) "You Couldn't Hit It on the Nose": The Limits of Knowledge in and of The Searchers Peter Lehman 239(26) "That Don't Make You Kin!": Borderlands History and Culture in The Searchers James F. Brooks 265(24) Re-searching David Grimstead 289(46) Native American Reactions to The Searchers Tom Grayson Colonnese 335(8) Film Credits 343(2) Selected Bibliography 345(10) Index 355