Searching For John Ford: A LifeMacmillan, 5 de abr. de 2003 - 880 páginas John Ford’s classic films---such as Stagecoach, The Grapes of Wrath, How Green Was My Valley, The Quiet Man, and The Searchers---earned him worldwide admiration as America’s foremost filmmaker, a director whose rich visual imagination conjured up indelible, deeply moving images of our collective past. Joseph McBride’s Searching for John Ford surpasses all previous 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. |
Conteúdo
Tisnt the castle that makes the king | 15 |
A faraway fella | 37 |
A dollar for a bloody nose | 75 |
A job of work | 101 |
Directed by John Ford | 135 |
Without a harbor man is lost | 165 |
Sean and Kate | 214 |
No place for an Auteur | 245 |
Yes this really happened | 335 |
I am a director of Westerns | 416 |
Go searchin way out there | 520 |
Theres no future in America | 600 |
Sources | 721 |
Filmography | 797 |
Acknowledgments | 805 |
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