John Ford (Da Capo Paperback)
by Joseph McBride, Michael Wilmington
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Orson Welles was once asked which directors he most admired. He replied: "The old masters. By which I mean John Ford, John Ford, and John Ford." A legend in his own time, John Ford (1894-1973) received a record four Academy Awards for best director, and two of his World War II documentaries won Oscars for the US Navy. He directed 136 films in a career that lasted from the early silent era through the late 1960s. Ford is celebrated throughout the world as the cinema's foremost chronicler of show more American history, the leading poet of the Western genre, and a wide-ranging filmmaker of profound emotional impact. His classic films-including Stagecoach (1939), The Grapes of Wrath (1940), How Green Was My Valley (1941), The Quiet Man (1952), The Searchers (1956), and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)-remain widely popular, and he has been acknowledged as a major influence on filmmakers such as Jean Renoir, Ingmar Bergman, Akira Kurosawa, Howard Hawks, Frank Capra, Samuel Fuller, Elia Kazan, Sidney Lumet, Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg, and George Lucas. In this groundbreaking critical study, Joseph McBride and Michael Wilmington provide an overview of Ford's career as well as in-depth analyses of key Ford films. Analyzing recurring Fordian themes and relating each film to his entire body of work, the authors insightfully explore the full richness of Ford's tragicomic vision of history. This new and revised version includes a study of the twenty-seven Ford silent films now known to survive in whole or in part (more than double the number available when the original edition was published); essays on three controversial aspects of Ford: his tragicomic sensibility, his views of race, and the influence of his Irish heritage; and an expanded version of McBride's interview with Ford on the last day of his career. show lessTags
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Joseph McBride is an internationally renowned film historian, biographer, and critic who has written twenty-three other books, including acclaimed biographies of Frank Capro, John Ford, and Steven Spielberg, as well as critical studies of Orson Welles, Ernst Lubitsch, and Billy Wilder.
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- Original publication date
- 1974
- People/Characters
- John Ford, film director
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- Nonfiction, Biography & Memoir
- DDC/MDS
- 791.43 — Arts & recreation Recreation, sports, and performing arts Public performances Motion pictures, radio, television, podcasting Motion pictures
- LCC
- PN1998 .A3 .F59 — Language and Literature Literature (General) Literature (General) Drama Motion pictures
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- English, Spanish
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- Paper, Ebook
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