Searching for John Ford [electronic resource] / Joseph McBride.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McBride, Joseph, 1947-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion picture producers and directors--United States--Biography.

Motion picture producers and directors.

Ford, John, 1894-1973.

Ford, John.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (883 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Jackson [Miss.] : University Press of Mississippi, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Introduction: My Search for John Ford; CHAPTER ONE: '""Tisn't the castle that makes the king""; CHAPTER TWO: A faraway fella; CHAPTER THREE: ""A dollar for a bloody nose""; CHAPTER FOUR: ""A job of work""; CHAPTER FIVE: Directed; CHAPTER SIX: ""Without a harbor, man is lost""; CHAPTER SEVEN: Sean and Kate; CHAPTER EIGHT: ""No place for an Auteur""; CHAPTER NINE: Natani Nez; CHAPTER TEN: ""Yes-this really happened""; CHAPTER ELEVEN: ""I am a director of Westerns""; CHAPTER TWELVE: ""Go searchin' way out there""; CHAPTER THIRTEEN: ""There's no future in America""; Sources

Filmography Acknowledgments; Index

Notes:

Originally published: New York : St Martin's Griffin, 1999.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Filmography: p. [797]-803.

ISBN:

1-62103-708-8

1-283-04914-7

9786613049148

1-60473-468-X

OCLC:

721946460