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Program

Research Programs: Summer Stipends

Period of Performance

6/1/1974 - 8/31/1974

Funding Totals

$2,000.00 (approved)
$2,000.00 (awarded)

A Linguistic Analysis of Three Film of the American Revolution

FAIN: FT-12208-74

John Ashmead, Jr
Haverford College (Haverford, PA 19041-1392)

To make detailed linguistic analyses of the three greatest movies about the American Revolution: D.W. Griffith, America (1924); John Ford, Drums Along the Mohawk (1939); and King Vidor, Northwest Passage (1940). This study will use the new linguistic methods of Christian Metz and will examine the interpretations of the Revolution these films suggest.