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The Searchers: The Making of an American Legend
By Frankel, Glenn
- ISBN
- 9781608191055 9781620400647
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury
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Reviewed on February 1, 2013 | Social Sciences
Myth- and filmmaking go hand in hand, as myth is both the source for and perpetuated by cinema. Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Frankel (formerly of the Washington Post; dir., Sch. of Journalism, Univ. of Texas, Austin; Riviona's Children) tackles this dichotomy by investigating the mythology around the story of Cynthia Ann Parker and how it later came to be immortalized in the 1955 film The Searchers. Th...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
