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2013 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel
Of Lessons and of Love: The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
verfasst von : Edward Gallafent
Erschienen in: Letters and Literacy in Hollywood Film
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
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In his biography of the political thinker and traveller Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson, E. M. Forster paraphrases Dickinson’s reactions to his tour of America in 1909, which we might say is approximately the moment of the present day in Ford’s film. Dickinson comments, not on the absence of culture, but the lack of intimacy: ‘Culture can wait, but how can any civilization grow out of people who can’t or daren’t be intimate with one another? There just isn’t the soil.’1 We might think of The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance as a meditation on these matters: the challenge posed by intimacy and what does, and does not, grow in such ground.