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John Ford’s The Sun Shines Bright and the Search for a Moral Order

Richmond B. Adams
March 2012
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Set in the Jim Crow South, Ford’s depiction of race relations and its attendant moral ambiguities are discussed by Richmond Adams.
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John Ford Made … Monsters? The Grotesque Tradition in Ford’s Work

Phil Wagner
August 2008
Feature Articles
“The grotesque æsthetic is a window into many of the unresolved contradictions in Ford’s work especially, the uneasy juxtaposition of the tragic and the comic and mankind’s perpetual battle with an unruly inner beast.” So writes Wagner, who traces the strong presence of the grotesque in Ford’s cinema.
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John Ford’s Funeral Oration: The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

Temenuga Trifonova
November 2007
CTEQ Annotations on Film
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962 USA 123 mins) Prod Co: John Ford Productions/Paramount Prod: Willis Goldbeck, John Ford Dir: John Ford Scr: James Warner Bellah, Willis Goldbeck, from a story by Dorot...
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A Legend that Dare Not Imprint its Name: The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

Peter H. Kemp
November 2007
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The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962 USA 123 mins) Prod Co: John Ford Productions/Paramount Prod: Willis Goldbeck, John Ford Dir: John Ford Scr: James Warner Bellah, Willis Goldbeck, from a story by D...
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American Triptych: Vidor, Hawks and Ford

Tag Gallagher
February 2007
The Moral of the Auteur Theory
Three legendary classical directors are put under the spotlight, and the results of Gallagher’s analysis are always illuminating and surprising.
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Passage: John Ford’s Young Mr. Lincoln

Tag Gallagher
May 2006
Cinema and the Pictorial
Noted Ford scholar Tag Gallagher casts his gaze over this well worn 1939 classic and discovers further treasures in Ford’s poetic vision.

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