Historia y mito de una fundación. La Guerra de Secesión en el cine de John Ford
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23-06-2026
Nekane Erritte Zubiaur Gorozika
Abstract
The article analyzes two films by American filmmaker John Ford set during the American Civil War: The Horse Soldiers (1959) and the chapter entitled The Civil War in How the West Was Won (1962). In these films, the director combines history and myth around the recurring figure of General Ulysses S. Grant and develops the theme of the glory inherent in failure. Both films present the war as a cruel but necessary conflict to keep the nation united and advocate reconciliation and brotherhood among Americans in line with Grant's own philosophy.
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Zubiaur Gorozika, N. E. (2026). Historia y mito de una fundación. La Guerra de Secesión en el cine de John Ford. ZER - Journal of Communication Studies, 31(60). https://doi.org/10.1387/zer.28251
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Keegan, J. (2011). Secesión: la guerra civil americana. Madrid: Turner.
MacDonald, J. (1998). Grandes batallas de la Guerra Civil Americana. Barcelona: Ediciones Folio.
McBride, J. (2004). Tras la pista de John Ford. Madrid: T&B.
McPherson, J. (1988). Battle Cry of Freedom. The Civil War Era. Nueva York: Oxford University Press.
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Viota, P. (2022). Simetrías. Los 5 actos en las películas de John Ford. Sevilla / Madrid: Athenaica / Serie Gong.
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Zunzunegui, S. (2021). Wagonmaster (John Ford, 1950). En S. Zunzunegui, Imagen sobre imagen: mis historias de cine I. Valencia: Shangrila Textos aparte.
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