Searching for John Ford

Searching for John Ford - Paperback

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Searching for John Ford - Paperback

Searching for John Ford - Paperback

by Joseph McBride
$90.00
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by Joseph McBride (Author)

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.

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The definitive biography of one of Hollywood's master directors

Author Biography

Joseph McBride is a film historian and associate professor in the Department of Cinema Studies at San Francisco State University. His many books include Hawks on Hawks; What Ever Happened to Orson Welles? A Portrait of an Independent Career; and Frank Capra: The Catastrophe of Success, the latter published by University Press of Mississippi.

Number of Pages: 848
Dimensions: 2.3 x 9.2 x 6.1 IN
Illustrated: Yes
Publication Date: February 01, 2011
ISBN9781604734676
Author Joseph McBride
PublisherUniversity Press of Mississippi
GenreBiography and Arts
FormatPaperback
PublishedFebruary 2011
LanguageENG- English
Pages848
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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Joseph McBride is an internationally renowned film historian and biographer and a veteran film and television writer whose decades of experience have brought him a Writers Guild of America Award, four other WGA nominations, two Emmy Award nominations, and a Canadian Film Awards nomination. McBride was one of the screenwriters of the cult classic punk rock musical Rock 'n' Roll High School and co-wrote five American Film Institute Life Achievement Award specials for CBS TV.

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