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9781604734676

Searching for John Ford

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    9781604734676

  • ISBN10:

    1604734671

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2011-02-15
  • Publisher: Univ Pr of Mississippi

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Summary

John FordÂ's classic filmsÂ--such asStagecoach,The Grapes of Wrath,How Green Was My Valley,The Quiet Man, andThe SearchersÂ--have earned him worldwide admiration as AmericaÂ's foremost filmmaker, a director whose rich visual imagination conjures up indelible, deeply moving images of our collective past.Joseph McBrideÂ'sSearching for John Ford, described as definitive by both theNew York Timesand theIrish Times, surpasses all other biographies of the filmmaker in its depth, originality, and insight. Encompassing and illuminating FordÂ's myriad complexities and contradictions, McBride traces the trajectory of FordÂ's life from his beginnings as Â"BullÂ" Feeney, the nearsighted, football-playing son of Irish immigrants in Portland, Maine, to his recognition, after a long, controversial, and much-honored career, as AmericaÂ's national mythmaker. Blending lively and penetrating analyses of FordÂ's films with an impeccably documented narrative of the historical and psychological contexts in which those films were created, McBride has at long last given John Ford the biography his stature demands.

Author Biography

Joseph McBride is the author of the acclaimed biographies Steven Spielberg: A Biography and Frank Capra: The Catastrophe of Success, both also published by the University Press of Mississippi, and of many other books on film. McBride is an associate professor in the Cinema Department at San Francisco State University.

Table of Contents

Introduction: My Search for John Fordp. 1
ô'Tisn't the castle that makes the kingöp. 15
A faraway fellap. 37
ôA dollar for a bloody noseöp. 75
ôA job of worköp. 101
Directedp. 135
ôWithout a harbor, man is lostöp. 165
Sean and Katep. 214
ôNo place for an Auteuröp. 245
Natani Nezp. 269
ôYes-this really happenedöp. 335
ôI am a director of Westernsöp. 416
ôGo searchin' way out thereöp. 520
ôThere's no future in Americaöp. 600
Sourcesp. 721
Filmographyp. 797
Acknowledgmentsp. 805
Indexp. 813
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