• DOI:10.3200/PPSC.38.2.69-78
Corpus ID: 144615334

Heroic Virtue and the Limits of Democracy in John Ford's The Searchers

@article{Alvis2009HeroicVA,
  title={Heroic Virtue and the Limits of Democracy in John Ford's The Searchers},
  author={J. Alvis and J. Alvis},
  journal={Perspectives on Political Science},
  year={2009},
  volume={38},
  pages={69 - 78}
}

• J. Alvis, J. Alvis
• Published 2009
• Sociology
• Perspectives on Political Science

The American imagination has always been captivated by the drama of the frontier, where a civilization is eked out among the brutal forces of nature by a few heroic individuals' force of strength and resolute courage. It seems mysterious why we, accustomed to the comforts of civil life and no longer precariously dependent on a few heroic souls, spend so much time employing the benefits of modern civilization, such as art and technology, in an effort to reconstruct the moments when civilization… Expand