How the West Was Sung: Music in the Westerns of John Ford

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books and articles about john ford Individual entries in anthologies devoted to Ford are not listed separately. Anderson, Lindsay. About John Ford . . . . New York: McGraw-Hill, 1983. Baxter, John. The Cinema of John Ford. London: A. Zwemmer; New York: Barnes, 1971. Behlmer, Rudy. “Bret Harte in Monument Valley: Stagecoach.” In America’s Favorite Movies: Behind the Scenes, 104–18. New York: Frederick Ungar, 1982. Bogdanovich, Peter. John Ford. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1968, rev. ed. 1978. Buscombe, Edward. Stagecoach. London: British Film Institute, 1992. ———. The Searchers. London: British Film Institute, 2000. Buscombe, Edward, and Roberta Pearson, eds. Back in the Saddle Again: New Essays on the Western. London: British Film Institute, 1998. Carey, Harry Jr. Company of Heroes: My Life as an Actor in the John Ford Stock Company. Lanham, Md.: Madison Books, 1996. Cowie, Peter. John Ford and the American West. New York: Abrams, 2004. Davis, Ronald L. John Ford: Hollywood’s Old Master. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1995. Eckstein, Arthur M., and Peter Lehman, eds. The Searchers: Essays and Reflections on John Ford’s Classic Western. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2004. Eyman, Scott. Print the Legend: The Life and Times of John Ford. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999. ———. John Ford: The Searcher, 1894–1973, ed. Paul Duncan. Cologne: Taschen, 2004. 235 Select Bibliography Flanagan, Thomas. “The Irish in John Ford’s Films.” In The Irish in America, ed. Michael Coffey, 191–95. New York: Hyperion, 1997. Ford, Dan. Pappy: The Life of John Ford. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1979. Reprint. New York: Da Capo Press, 1998. Gallagher, Tag. John Ford: The Man and His Films. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986. Giles, Paul. “John Ford and Robert Altman: The Cinema of Catholicism.” In Unspeakable Images: Ethnicity and the American Cinema, ed. Lester D. Friedman , 140–66. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1991. Reprinted in Paul Giles, American Catholic Arts and Fictions: Culture, Ideology, Aesthetics, 296–323. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992. Grant, Barry Keith, ed. John Ford’s Stagecoach. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Henderson, Brian. “The Searchers: An American Dilemma.” Film Quarterly 34, 2 (Winter 1980–81): 9–23. Kirby, Lynne. Parallel Tracks: The Railroad and Silent Cinema. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1996. Lehman, Peter. “Texas 1868 / America 1956.” In Close Viewings: An Anthology of New Film Criticism, ed. id., 387–415. Tallahassee: Florida State University Press, 1990. Leighninger, Robert D., Jr. “The Western as Male Soap Opera: John Ford’s Rio Grande.” Journal of Men’s Studies 6, 2 (Winter 1998): 134–48. Lourdeaux, Lee. Italian and Irish Filmmakers in America: Ford, Capra, Coppola, and Scorcese. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1990. McBride, Joseph. Searching for John Ford: A Life. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2001. McBride, Joseph, and Michael Wilmington. John Ford. London: Secker & Warburg , 1974. New York: Da Capo Press, 1975. ———. “Sergeant Rutledge.” Velvet Light Trap 2 (August 1971): 16–18. Maltby, Richard. “A Better Sense of History: John Ford and the Indians.” In The Book of Westerns, ed. Ian Cameron and Douglas Pye, 34–49. New York: Continuum, 1996. Manchell, Frank. “Losing and Finding John Ford’s Sergeant Rutledge.” Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television 17, 2 (1997): 245–60. Morgan, Jack. “The Irish in John Ford’s Cavalry Trilogy—Victor McLaglen’s Stooge-Irish Caricature.” Melus 22, 2 (Summer 1997): 33–43. Neale, Steve. “Vanishing Americans: Racial and Ethnic Issues in the Interpretation and Context of Post-war ‘Pro-Indian’ Westerns.” In Back in the Saddle Again: New Essays on the Western, ed. Edward Buscombe and Roberta Pearson , 8–28. London: British Film Institute, 1998. Nolley, Kenneth J. “Printing the Legend in the Age of MX: Reconsidering Ford’s Military Trilogy.” Literature/Film Quarterly 14, 2 (1988): 82–88. Palmer, Barton. “A Masculinist Reading of Two Western Films: High Noon and Rio Grande.” Journal of Popular Film and Television 12, 4 (1984): 156–62. Peary, Gerard, ed. John Ford Interviews. Jackson: University of Mississippi Press, 2001. 236 Bibliography Place, Janey. The Western Films of John Ford. Secaucus, N.J.: Citadel Press, 1974. Poague, Leland. “All I Can See Is the Flags: Fort Apache and the Visibility of History .” Cinema Journal 27, 2 (Winter 1988): 8–26. Pye, Douglas. “Genre and History: Fort Apache and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance.” In The Book of Westerns, ed. Ian Cameron and Douglas Pye, 111–22. New York: Continuum, 1996. ———. “Miscegenation and...