Monument Valley
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| '''Monument Valley''' are a cluster of [[vast]] and [[iconic]] [[sandstone]] [[butte]]s located on the southern border of [[Utah]] with northern [[Arizona]]. | '''Monument Valley''' are a cluster of [[vast]] and [[iconic]] [[sandstone]] [[butte]]s located on the southern border of [[Utah]] with northern [[Arizona]]. | ||
| - | Monument Valley has been featured in [[many forms of media]] since the 1930s. Director [[John Ford]] used the location for a number of his [[Western (genre)|Western]]s; critic [[Keith Phipps]] wrote that "its have defined what decades of moviegoers think of when they imagine the [[Western United States|American West]]". | + | Monument Valley has been featured in [[many forms of media]] since the 1930s. [[John Ford]]'s use of [[Monument Valley]] as an expressive landscape in his films from ''[[Stagecoach (1939 film)|Stagecoach]]'' (1939) to ''[[Cheyenne Autumn]]'' (1965) present us with visions of the [[American West]]. |
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Monument Valley are a cluster of vast and iconic sandstone buttes located on the southern border of Utah with northern Arizona.
Monument Valley has been featured in many forms of media since the 1930s. John Ford's use of Monument Valley as an expressive landscape in his films from Stagecoach (1939) to Cheyenne Autumn (1965) present us with visions of the American West.
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