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"Deconstruct the 1956 film "The Searchers" using the five key concepts. In your discourse, also consider mise-en-scene"
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... "Deconstruct the 1956 film "The Searchers" using the five key concepts. In your discourse, also consider mise-en-scene" Audience In 'going against the grain' of traditional light-hearted Westerns, John Ford was initially taking a risk with "The Searchers" and it's dark, sombre and borderline racist undertones. After the success of the "classic perfection" that is Stagecoach, Ford took the genre into darker territory by embodying a quest fuelled by hatred and revenge, yet justifies the hunt by centring the script around a wholesome Yankee family, the Edwards. This good-living family provided an onscreen role model for the typical family of 1950's America. Hardworking parents, obedient christianly children - it evokes great sympathy for the house (or rather, home) when it is ransacked by "the Comanche". Its obvious Ford was presenting a model for post-war America: children looked up to Wayne as the gun-totin', Injun-killin' cowboys they pretended to be, and the earnest,














