Table of Contents

Introduction: spokes in the wheels Barry Keith Grant; 1. Stagecoach and Hollywood's A-western renaissance Thomas Schatz; 2. 'Powered by a Ford'?: Dudley Nichols, authorship, and cultural ethos in Stagecoach Charles J. Maland; 3. That past, this present: historicizing John Ford, 1939 Leland Poague; 4. 'A little bit savage': Stagecoach and racial representation J. P. Telotte; 5. 'Be a proud, glorified dreg': class, gender and frontier democracy in Stagecoach Gaylyn Studlar; 6. Stagecoach and the quest for selfhood William Rothman; Reviews of Stagecoach: 1. The Hollywood Spectator (February 18, 1939); 2. New York Times (March 3, 1939); 3. The Daily Worker (March 4, 1939); Filmography; Select bibliography; Index.

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Offers a rich overview of this classic in essays by six leading film critics.

Reviews

"Stagecoach is must reading for any student of the Western, of Ford, and of Stagecoach itself, for both the multiplicity of approaches the contributors employ and for the riches of their analyses." Film Quarterly