The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance: Film Analysis
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance is an Old Western movie directed by John Ford and released in 1962. The film focuses on the story of how, now senator, Ransom Stoddard (James Stewart) originally came to the town of Shinbone and explains why he and his wife, Hallie (Vera Miles), returned for the funeral of Tom Doniphon (John Wayne). Based of R. W. Connell’s book titled Gender and Power, Tom and Ransom are excellent representations of hegemonic masculinity and subordinated masculinity, respectively. Tom Doniphon is easily seen as the representation of hegemonic masculinity in this film. On page 184 of her book, Connell states how the hegemonic masculinity is what the majority thinks masculinity should be. In Shinbone, a town in America’s Wild