Histoire, cinéma et idéologie : réflexions sur le Cimarron de Wesley Ruggles (1930)

Wesley Ruggles’s film adaptation of Edna Ferber’s eponymous novel deals with the question of slavery. Glorifying the right to set up, it eternalizes the famous uncivilized racing of 50 000 would-be farmers in quest of a piece of land in Oklahoma. The film pictures a place that punishes the appropria...

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Main Author: Elyette Benjamin-Labarthe
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Association Française des Enseignants et Chercheurs en Cinéma et Audiovisuel 2010-04-01
Series:Mise au Point
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/map/1174