Magical History Tour - American Mythmaking and British (Color) Opulence

We continue our journey through American genre history - with westerns, film noir and melodramas from the 1940s and 50s, the age of classical Hollywood cinema. John Ford's name is inseparably connected to the American western movie. Like hardly anyone else, he shaped this archetypical American genre and during the five decades of his career as a director, he developed it further, creating archetypes and legends. Georg Seeßlen called John Ford, who in his late movies critically addressed this production of myths, the "greatest myth poet of American cinema."