03131cam a2200325 4500 533886436 ER5 20210917120000.0 ||||||s2013||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781620400647 1620400642 B009SJZI60 Amazon 4161399b-4771-4dca-8315-fc570f448774 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 1232212 OverDrive (Product ID) ER5 Frankel, Glenn. The Searchers [Libby] : The Making of an American Legend. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2013. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 4753kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. History. Performing Arts. Nonfiction. HTML:<b><i>New York Times</i> Bestseller</b><br /> <b><br /></b> <b>Named one of the best books of the year by:</b><br /> <i><b>Parade</b></i><br /> <b>The <i>Guardian</i></b><br /> <i><b>Kirkus</b></i><br /> <i><b>Library Journal</b></i><br /> <b><br /></b> <b>The true story behind the classic Western <i>The Searchers</i> by Pulitzer Prize-wining writer Glenn Frankel that the <i>New York Times</i> calls "A vivid, revelatory account of John Ford's 1956 masterpiece."</b><br /> <br /> In 1836 in East Texas, nine-year-old Cynthia Ann Parker was kidnapped by Comanches. She was raised by the tribe and eventually became the wife of a warrior. Twenty-four years after her capture, she was reclaimed by the U.S. cavalry and Texas Rangers and restored to her white family, to die in misery and obscurity. Cynthia Ann's story has been told and re-told over generations to become a foundational American tale. The myth gave rise to operas and one-act plays, and in the 1950s to a novel by Alan LeMay, which would be adapted into one of Hollywood's most legendary films, <i>The Searchers</i>, "The Biggest, Roughest, Toughest... and Most Beautiful Picture Ever Made!" directed by John Ford and starring John Wayne.<br /> <br /> Glenn Frankel, beginning in Hollywood and then returning to the origins of the story, creates a rich and nuanced anatomy of a timeless film and a quintessentially American myth. The dominant story that has emerged departs dramatically from documented history: it is of the inevitable triumph of white civilization, underpinned by anxiety about the sullying of white women by "savages." What makes John Ford's film so powerful, and so important, Frankel argues, is that it both upholds that myth and undermines it, baring the ambiguities surrounding race, sexuality, and violence in the settling of the West and the making of America. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2021-11-16 20:00:03. https://samples.overdrive.com/searchers-416139?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/searchers-416139?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/searchers-416139?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)