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Appendix 3.2: Sample films - synopses and character lists
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Ethan:         They aint white, anymore. They’re

Comanches. Casualties.

There is a fundamental problem with this film's coherence,
evidenced in its attempt to draw on the two very different
generic categories, the western and the melodrama. What is the
point of such an attempt, in the mid fifties? It seems that
the answer to this question turns on the need to articulate
the 'civilised' in terms which were of immediate relevance to
contemporary American society. But the western convention of
'feminising' the non-white, savage, childlike - the un-
cultured, in short - in order to delineate the more clearly
the culture of the male, white hero standing as he does for
America and the future, works against the conventions of the
family melodrama in which women are typically offered as the
central stabilising force with the prerogative - albeit
expressed in servile terms - of maintaining the fabric of
Civilsation. This generic difference accounts for the
inconsistencies of the central characters Ethan and Debbie,
though their inconsistencies cannot ever be reconciled within
the terms offered in this film.

Female characters in order of appearance, character groups

1____

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Martha Edwards___________________________________

3______

2_____

Lucy Edwards

3______

3_____

Debbie Edwards

2______

4_____

Mourners at the Edwards funeral__________________

4______

5_____

Mrs Jorgensen

3_______

6____

Laurie Jorgensen

2______

7

Indian women in the camp where Ethan and Marty
trade

4

8

Look aka Wild Goose Flying at Night aka Mrs
Pawley__________________________________________

3

9

Indian women, captives escorted by the US
Cavalry

4

10

Deranged young white woman in the US fort chapel

4______

11

Older white woman in the US fort chapel

4______

12

Two teenage girls, US fort chapel

4______

13

Corpses of white women, US fort

4______

14

Carmen in the Mexican bar

4______

15

Mamacita, in the kitchen of the Mexican bar

4______

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