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He was the supreme “Western” director. In 1939, Ford directed two classic Westerns, the more celebrated “Stagecoach,” and the less renowned “Drums Along the Mohawk.” Although both films being
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American Ideology Expressed in Western Films Western films are the major defining genre of the American film industry, a nostalgic display of praise to the early days of the expansive, untamed American frontier. Director John Ford was a much-celebrated director who made some of the most famous pictures in Hollywood cinema, if not all of filmmaking. He was the supreme "Western" director. In 1939, Ford directed two classic Westerns, the more celebrated "Stagecoach," and the less renowned "Drums Along the Mohawk." Although both films being described by critics and connoisseurs of film of raising ideological contradictions in juxtaposition with one another, there is a subtle similar view that both films do agree in retrospect to their views of American civilization. There is a similarity in themes each film expresses, although each film expresses its themes in a different degree of intensity within its narrative,...
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