Western films are the major defining genre of the American film industry, a nostalgic
             display of praise to the early days of the expansive, untamed American frontier. Director John
             Ford was a much-celebrated director who made some of the most famous pictures in Hollywood
             cinema, if not all of filmmaking. He was the supreme "Western" director. In 1939, Ford directed
             two classic Westerns, the more celebrated "Stagecoach," and the less renowned "Drums Along
             the Mohawk." Although both films being described by critics and connoisseurs of film of raising
             ideological contradictions in juxtaposition with one another, there is a subtle similar view that
             both films do agree in retrospect to their views of American civilization. There is a similarity in
             themes each film expresses, although each film expresses its themes in a different degree of
             intensity within its narrative, but in the end, these similar themes signify that both films do
             present a related ideology of American civilization.
             Not in accordance to the mainstream view of critics that these films contradict each other,
             these two films compliment each other. It is merely the time separation that each film is situated
             in that creates such disparity the critics sense between the films. "Drums Along the Mohawk" is
             set around the time of 1776, after the signing of the Declaration of Independence and around the
             time of the American Revolution. This setting designs the film to express such a positively
             conceived ideology of America and a strong optimistic view. America is to be free from British
             influence and have their own identity as a fully-fledged nation – hence their birth as an
             independent nation. So much potential is conceived and progress to be achieved. "Stagecoach"
             is more of a commentary of civilization in the West during the time around 1880. The
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