Searching for John Ford

✍ Scribed by Joseph McBride

• Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 883
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

John Ford's classic films--such as Stagecoach, The Grapes of Wrath, How Green Was My Valley, The Quiet Man, and The Searchers--have earned him worldwide admiration as America's foremost filmmaker, a director whose rich visual imagination conjures up indelible, deeply moving images of our collective past.Joseph McBride's Searching for John Ford, described as definitive by both the New York Times and the Irish Times, surpasses all other biographies of the filmmaker in its depth, originality, and insight. Encompassing and illuminating Ford's myriad complexities and contradictions, McBride traces the trajectory of Ford's life from his beginnings as "Bull" Feeney, the nearsighted, football-playing son of Irish immigrants in Portland, Maine, to his recognition, after a long, controversial, and much-honored career, as America's national mythmaker. Blending lively and penetrating analyses of Ford'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.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 10
Introduction: My Search for John Ford......Page 12
CHAPTER ONE: '"Tisn't the castle that makes the king"......Page 26
CHAPTER TWO: A faraway fella......Page 48
CHAPTER THREE: "A dollar for a bloody nose"......Page 86
CHAPTER FOUR: "A job of work"......Page 112
CHAPTER FIVE: Directed......Page 146
CHAPTER SIX: "Without a harbor, man is lost"......Page 176
CHAPTER SEVEN: Sean and Kate......Page 225
CHAPTER EIGHT: "No place for an Auteur"......Page 256
CHAPTER NINE: Natani Nez......Page 280
CHAPTER TEN: "Yes—this really happened"......Page 346
CHAPTER ELEVEN: "I am a director of Westerns"......Page 427
CHAPTER TWELVE: "Go searchin' way out there"......Page 531
CHAPTER THIRTEEN: "There's no future in America"......Page 611
Sources......Page 732
Filmogmphy......Page 808
Acknowledgments......Page 816
A......Page 824
B......Page 825
C......Page 826
D......Page 828
E......Page 829
F......Page 830
G......Page 834
H......Page 835
K......Page 837
L......Page 838
M......Page 839
N......Page 841
P......Page 842
R......Page 843
S......Page 844
T......Page 846
V......Page 847
W......Page 848
Z......Page 849
Photo Section......Page 850

✦ Subjects

Библиотека;Жизнь выдающихся людей;Актеры, режиссеры, критики;