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Article: Critical discourse and the cultural consecration of American films.
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- Social Forces
- Article date:
- March 1, 2004
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In 1989, when the National Film Preservation Board selected the first 25 films to be included in the National Film Registry, one of the films chosen was The Searchers, a western directed by John Ford. Nine years later, the American Film Institute included it among the "100 greatest American films of all time." The consecration of this film by these two cultural institutions from the tens of thousands of American films produced over the past century was paradoxical on a number of counts. Although The Searchers was one of the top ten films of 1956 in terms of box-office income, it did not garner any professional awards or much critical acclaim when it ...
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