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Title: The Searchers (Bfi Film Classics) by Edward Buscombe ISBN: 0-85170-820-X Publisher: British Film Institute Pub. Date: 01 March, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A Fine Look at a Compelling Movie
Comment: This book is even better than Buscombe's book on "Stagecoach." It is clear this movie has a stronger emotional hold on him than the earlier film. Buscombe does a very thorough job, comparing where the film deviates from the novel and the script.
He does something I have seen no other writer on "The Searchers" do, and that is to discuss the film's music, which is based on the 19th Century song "Lorena," which has a theme about separated lovers that reflects the Ethan-Martha relationship.
The book concludes with the changing critical reception of "The Searchers." Frankly, I think this is a fine, and fair assessment of the movie, one free from a lot of cant and academic jargon. I wish Buscombe would write a major book about the Western genre.
Rating: 4
Summary: I still want more
Comment: This is a good introduction to the study of John Ford's films and it highlights one of his greatest, but I still believe that no-one has come close to fully analysing his retelling of the Herculean Myth. In an age where race issues were beginning to divide the country, Ford used a broad brush western to show the dangers of hysterical racism. Ethan Edwards is the most complex hero, Ford ever produced and he defies analysis. After his efforts to reunite a family, he sees he has no place at all. Buscombe has written a very good and learned book on the searchers, but I still want more.
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Title: Red River (Bfi Film Classics) by Suzanne Liandrat-Guigues ISBN: 0851708196 Publisher: British Film Institute Pub. Date: 01 March, 2001 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Shane (Bfi Film Classics) by Edward Countryman, Evonne Von Heussen-Countryman ISBN: 0851707327 Publisher: British Film Institute Pub. Date: 01 December, 1999 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Stagecoach (Bfi Film Classics) by Edward Buscombe ISBN: 0851702996 Publisher: British Film Institute Pub. Date: 01 September, 1992 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title:The Searchers ASIN: 6304696566 Publisher: Warner Studios Pub. Date: 18 May, 2004 List Price(USD): $14.97 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $11.99 |
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Title:My Darling Clementine ASIN: B00005JLUH Publisher: Twentieth Century Fox Home Video Pub. Date: 02 March, 2004 List Price(USD): $14.98 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $12.28 |
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