“I Ain’t So Sure but What the Lord Done Put These Folks in Our Path for a Reason”: Latter-day Saints Building Communities Through Dancing in John Ford’s Wagon Master
One of Ford’s lesser known works, Wagon Master (1950), utilizes Mormonism’s affinity for dancing to build bonds between diverse groups, thus epitomizing the director’s optimistic vision of a united and progressive America. Through the development of the narrative and Wagon Master’s mise-en-scène, Fo...
| Published in: | The journal of religion and film |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Journals Online & Print: | Drawer...
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| Fernleihe: | Fernleihe für die Fachinformationsdienste |
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2015
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| In: |
The journal of religion and film
Year: 2015, Volume: 19, Issue: 2, Pages: 1-28 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Wagon Master
/ Mormon Church
/ Religiosity
/ Dance
/ Social acceptance
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| RelBib Classification: | AG Religious life; material religion CB Christian life; spirituality CC Christianity and Non-Christian religion; Inter-religious relations CH Christianity and Society KDH Christian sects |
| Further subjects: | B
Mormonism
John Ford
Western film
Dancing
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Volltext (Verlag) |