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.
