My Darling Clementine

The Construction of American National Identity in My Darling Clementine John Ford’s 1946 Western film My Darling Clementine played a great part in the construction of American national identity through its symbolic representation of the USA and of foreigners. Released a year after World War Two, the film acknowledges the anxieties America had faced towards foreign powers and attempts to put these anxieties at ease by portraying America as a hero-figure. The representation of characters within

The use of an audio mise-en-scène is used treated uniquely in both clips. In My Darling Clementine, as Wyatt and Clementine are watching the festivities, and even though there is a permeating sound of feet stomping, music playing, and happy chatter, we can still clearly hear Wyatt asking Clementine to dance. With Once Upon a Time in the West, a layered collection of sound effects is used instead of any dialogue or music to emphasize the silence of the train station and eventually the arrival of the

My Darling Clementine (1946) is a film that follows the classic semantics and syntactics of an original western film through the common traits, attitudes, characters, shots and locations that attribute to the building blocks of the Western genre. My Darling Clementine also includes syntactic elements that incorporate the genres fundamental grammar and the structure into which building blocks are placed. This can be compared and contrasted with the film Unforgiven which represents the revisionist

The Fundamental Oppositions in My Darling Clementine In the Western genre, according to Jim Kitses, anyone is able to understand it as a genre articulating a cultural mythology (Belton 249). In this case, the American psyche. It has been said that the Western represents the myth of the frontier, which meant the unsettled land at the edge of the frontier where land was unlimited and free for any man to claim. This notion dates back to the late nineteenth-century. Accordingly, Hollywood produced

The use of mise-en-scene in John Ford’s classic western is very important when it comes to conveying the meanings and effects in “My Darling Clementine”. This essay will study the mise-en-scene of the film, to explore the meaning of violence and the effects of civilization on the frontier. The effects of civilization are very apparent in the film, as it seems that Ford has tried to explore the juxtaposition of civilization and wilderness. Henry Ford’s character, Wyatt Earp, an ex-Marshall who is

portrayal of society’s expansion to the west. In these films, this expansion, which is a part of the movement to tame the Wild West, is a conflict that is played out as a battle of oppositions on the American frontier. In director John Ford’s My Darling Clementine, this fundamental aspect of the genre comes across in the main character, Wyatt Earp’s, conflict with the Clanton family, whom the audience ultimately finds out are the ones who shot and killed the youngest Earp brother. While Wyatt Earp’s

The two western films, My Darling Clementine directed by John Ford, and Wyatt Earp, directed by Lawrence Kasdan, are films based off of the real Wyatt Earp. However, both films depict two different Wyatt Earps, as in My Darling Clementine depicts a hero, as Wyatt is good to the people of the West. In My Darling Clementine, Wyatt Earp shows up into town with his men; we know nothing about his past. Everyone seems to like him as he is nice to people and serves as a protector from certain bad men such

Overcoming Death It was a week after Mom and I visited my uncle when we received the call announcing his death. Uncle Lito, my oldest—and favourite—uncle from Dad’s side, had been battling against cancer for almost a year and he had been coping up so well that we all thought he would survive. His passing was a shock for all of us, especially to my father, who was working abroad at the time and was the closest amongst the siblings to Uncle Lito. I remember Dad lamenting over the phone, telling Mom

Discuss the thematic implications of Doc Holliday and Granville Thorndyke (the Shakespearean actor) in “My Darling Clementine.” What is Ford trying to say about the relation to the civilized East to the unsettled West. (Clementine vs. Chihuahua is relevant here.) The Wild West: An Analysis of Post-Civil War Tension in John Ford’s “My Darling Clementine” Following the end of the United States’ Civil War, new territories had becomes states, notably what is now known as the West. The West

almost synonymous like Bufflo Bill, had entrance the nation with tales of outlaws, cowboy, and prowling lawmen. This has led to many myths surrounding the famous gunfight at O.K. Corral, in which its popularity as led to many films. The films, My Darling Clementine, Tombstone, and Wyatt Earp, share a common subject and information, however, each provides is own perspective into the Earps and the cowboy conflict. The films offer different versions of the same events and people, however these versions have