Fort Apache (hostile place)
- Fort Apache (hostile place)
Fort Apache is, metaphorically, a building, complex, or defensive site providing shelter from hostile action in the form of crime (in police drama) or native insurrection or enemy attack (in John Ford movies). [cite web
url= http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0009-7101(198824)27%3A2%3C8%3A%22ICSIT%3E2.0.CO%3B2-Z
title= "All I Can See Is the Flags": "Fort Apache" and the Visibility of History
publisher= Cinema Journal
accessdate= 2007-12-26 ]
The metaphor is now used by military and police to refer to a post which is beset/besieged. Recent examples may be found in Iraq and Afghanistan. [ cite web
url= http://www.windsofchange.net/archives/004411.php
title= Fort Apache, Afghanistan
publisher= Winds of Change
accessdate= 2007-12-26 ] Another example is "Fort Apache, the Bronx", a name used in the past for the NYPD's 41st Precinct Station House at 1086 Simpson Street, the Bronx and the 1981 movie named for it. [ cite news
url= http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F0CE4D8103DF930A15755C0A965958260
title= Pulling Out of Fort Apache, the Bronx; New 41st Precinct Station House Leaves Behind Symbol of Community's Past Troubles
date= 1993-06-23
publisher= The New York Times
quote= He stretched his memory back 25 years to his days as a rookie patrolman in the 41st Precinct, whose station house was known from here to Hollywood as Fort Apache, a solitary outpost in a neighborhood of death and decay and gangs with grandiosely macabre names.
accessdate= 2007-12-26 ]
See also
* "Fort Apache" (1948 John Ford film)
* "Fort Apache, The Bronx" (1981 film)
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