Searching for John Ford: a life

✍ Scribed by Ford, John;McBride, Joseph

• Publisher: University Press of Mississippi;St. Martin's Press
• Year: 2001;2011
• Tongue: English
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

"Searching for John Ford surpasses all previous biographies of the filmmaker. Encompassing and illuminating Ford's complexities and contradictions, Joseph McBride comes as close as anyone ever will to solving what Andrew Sarris called the "John Ford movie mystery." McBride traces the whole trajectory of Ford's life, from his beginnings as "Bull" Feeney, the nearsighted, football-playing son of Irish immigrants in Portland, Maine, through to his establishment as America's most formidable and protean filmmaker."--Jacket.

✦ Table of Contents

Introduction: My Search for John Ford --
"'Tisn't the castle that makes the king" --
A faraway fella --
"A dollar for a bloody nose" --
"A job of work" --
Directed by John Ford --
"Without a harbor, man is lost" --
Sean and Kate --
"No place for an Auteur" --
Natani Nez --
"Yes--this really happened" --
"I am a director of Westerns" --
"Go searchin' way out there" --
"There's no future in America."

✦ Subjects

Filmkunst;Motion picture producers and directors--United States;Producteurs et réalisateurs de cinéma--États-Unis;Motion picture producers and directors;Biographies;Biography;Ford, John, -- 1894-1973;Ford, John -- Regisseur;Motion picture producers and directors -- United States -- Biography;Producteurs et réalisateurs de cinéma -- États-Unis -- Biographies;United States