John Ford

Author : Joseph McBride
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 983 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2011-02-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781496800565

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Searching for John Ford by Joseph McBride Pdf

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.

Author : Tag Gallagher
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 588 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0520063341

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John Ford by Tag Gallagher Pdf

This radical re-reading of Ford's work studies his films in the context of his complex character, demonstrating their immense intelligence and their profound critique of our culture.

Author : Scott Eyman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2015-03-31
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781476797724

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Print the Legend by Scott Eyman Pdf

Follows the legendary John Ford through a career that spanned more than five decades, drawing on dozens of personal interviews, material from Ford's estate, and film criticism.

Author : Kathryn M. Kalinak
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2007-09-17
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780520941076

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How the West Was Sung by Kathryn M. Kalinak Pdf

James Stewart once said, "For John Ford, there was no need for dialogue. The music said it all." This lively, accessible study is the first comprehensive analysis of Ford's use of music in his iconic westerns. Encompassing a variety of critical approaches and incorporating original archival research, Kathryn Kalinak explores the director's oft-noted predilection for American folk song, hymnody, and period music. What she finds is that Ford used music as more than a stylistic gesture. In fascinating discussions of Ford's westerns—from silent-era features such as Straight Shooting and The Iron Horse to classics of the sound era such as My Darling Clementine and The Searchers —Kalinak describes how the director exploited music, and especially song, in defining the geographical and ideological space of the American West.

Author : John M. Ford
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780671038533

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The Final Reflection by John M. Ford Pdf

Klingon Capt. Krenn is a ruthless war strategist. But on a mission to Earth, Krenn learns a lesson in peace when his empire hatches a covert plan to shatter the Federation. Only Krenn can prevent a war--at the risk of his own life!

Author : Scott Eyman,Paul Duncan
Publisher : Taschen
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 3822830933

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John Ford by Scott Eyman,Paul Duncan Pdf

This text takes a critical look at the films of John Ford, including 'Stagecoach', 'The Fugitive' and 'The Quiet Man'.

Author : Bill Levy
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1998-11-30
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780313387821

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John Ford by Bill Levy Pdf

John Ford (1894-1973) is universally acknowledged as one of the greatest directors in the history of cinema. He is the only person to win four Academy Awards for Direction, for The Informer (1935), The Grapes of Wrath (1940), How Green Was My Valley (1941), and The Quiet Man (1952). This reference book is a comprehensive guide to his career. The volume begins with a biography that looks at Ford as a person, a director, and a cinematic legend and influence. Ford's life is discussed chronologically, but the biography repeatedly considers how his early experiences shaped his creative vision and attempts to explain why he was so self-destructive and unhappy throughout his career. In addition, the biography carefully scrutinizes his methods, styles, techniques, and secrets of direction. A chronology presents his achievements in capsule form. The rest of the book provides detailed information about his many productions and about the response to his works. The heart of the volume is a filmography, which includes individual entries for 184 films with which Ford was involved, as either an actor, a director, a producer, a writer, an advisor, or an assistant. These entries include cast and credit information, a plot synopsis, critical commentary, and excerpts from reviews. The book also includes the most extensive annotated bibliography on Ford ever published, with more than 1000 entries for books, articles, dissertations, documentaries, and even four works of fiction concerning Ford. Additional sections of the book provide information about his unrealized projects; his radio, television, and theater work; his awards and honors; and special collections and archives.

Author : Janey Ann Place
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : UOM:39015001361412

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The Western Films of John Ford by Janey Ann Place Pdf

Films of John Ford.

Author : Scott Allen Nollen
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2013-03-29
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476601601

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Three Bad Men by Scott Allen Nollen Pdf

These were unique, complex, personal and professional relationships between master director John Ford and his two favorite actors, John Wayne and Ward Bond. The book provides a biography of each and a detailed exploration of Ford's work as it was intertwined with the lives and work of both Wayne and Bond (whose biography here is the first ever published). The book reveals fascinating accounts of ingenuity, creativity, toil, perseverance, bravery, debauchery, futility, abuse, masochism, mayhem, violence, warfare, open- and closed-mindedness, control and chaos, brilliance and stupidity, rationality and insanity, friendship and a testing of its limits, love and hate--all committed by a "half-genius, half-Irish" cinematic visionary and his two surrogate sons: Three Bad Men.

Author : John Ford
Publisher : Рипол Классик
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1915
Category : History
ISBN : 9785875899133

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Tis Pity She's a Whore And the Broken Heart by John Ford Pdf

Author : Joseph McBride
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 883 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2011-02-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781604734683

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Searching for John Ford by Joseph McBride Pdf

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.

Author : Peter Bogdanovich
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1978-06-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0520034988

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John Ford, Revised and Enlarged Edition by Peter Bogdanovich Pdf

This book provides an intimate and affectionate view of one of Hollywood's most admired directors. The fifty-year career of John Ford (1895-1973) included six Academy Awards, four New York Film Critics' Awards, and some of our most memorable films, among them The Informer (1934), The Grapes of Wrath (1940), The Quiet Man (1952), The Long Gray Line (1955), and The Wings of Eagles (1957). In addition, the name John Ford was practically synonymous with the great Westerns that came out of Hollywood for many years-- Stagecoach (1939), She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949), Rio Grande (1950), The Searchers (1956), and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962), for example. After his death a European newspaper mourned ford as "the creator of the Western," although many of his finest films were far removed from that genre. Combining interviews with John Ford with his own reflections, director Peter Bogdanovich captures both the artist and the man in a highly readable, compact book that will please film lovers and Ford admirers alike. Over a hundred stills are included, along wit hthe most completed filmography yet compiled for John Ford.

Author : Ronald L. Davis
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2014-12-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780806174327

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John Ford by Ronald L. Davis Pdf

John Ford remains the most honored director in Hollywood history, having won six Academy Awards and four New York Film Critics Awards. Drawing upon extensive written and oral history, Ronald L. David explores Ford’s career from his silent classic, The Iron Horse, through the transition to sound, and then into the pioneer years of location filming, the golden years of Hollywood, and the movement toward television. During his career, Ford made such classics as Stagecoach, The Grapes of Wrath, How Green Was My Valley, and The Searchers-136 pictures in all, 54 of them Westerns. The complexity of his personality comes alive here through the eyes of his colleagues, friends, relatives, film critics, and the actors he worked with, including John Wayne, Henry Fonda, Maureen O’Hara, and Katharine Hepburn.

Author : Gaylyn Studlar,Matthew Bernstein
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2001-04-22
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0253214149

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John Ford Made Westerns by Gaylyn Studlar,Matthew Bernstein Pdf

The Western is arguably the most popular and longlived form in cinematic history, and the acknowledged master of that genre was John Ford. His Westerns, including The Searchers, Stagecoach, and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, have had an enormous influence on contemporary U.S. filmmakers, and on everything from Star Wars to Taxi Driver.In nine majors essays from some of the most prominent scholars of Hollywood film, John Ford Made Westerns: Filming The Legend in The Sound Era situates the sound era westerns of John Ford within contemporary critical contexts and regards them from fresh perspectives. These range from examining Ford's relation to other art forms (most notably literature, painting and music) to exploring the development of the director's public reputation as a director of Westerns. Articles also address the intricacies of Ford's shifting approach to storytelling and the subtle techniques whereby Ford's films guide spectator interpretation and emotional engagement.While giving attention to film style and structure, the volume also explores the ways in which these much loved films engage with notions of masculinity and gender roles, capitalism and community, as well as racial and sexual identity. Authors also examine how Ford's sound-era Westerns create a complex relationship to the genre's traditional project of "defining an American nation" and how they uphold up but also question popular culture depictions of history and nationhood, to offer a commentary that engages with both the past, the present and the future.In addition to new scholarship, the volume also offers a dossier section of out of the way magazine articles that illuminate the issues raised by essays, including the director's tribute to John Wayne as well as a moving posthumous appraisal of the director published by the Director's Guild of America.

Author : John M. Ford
Publisher : Tor Books
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781250269027

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The Dragon Waiting by John M. Ford Pdf

“The best mingling of history with historical magic that I have ever seen.”—Gene Wolfe In a snowbound inn high in the Alps, four people meet who will alter fate. A noble Byzantine mercenary . . . A female Florentine physician . . . An ageless Welsh wizard . . . And Sforza, the uncanny duke. Together they will wage an intrigue-filled campaign against the might of Byzantium to secure the English throne for Richard, Duke of Gloucester—and make him Richard III. Available for the first time in nearly two decades, with a new introduction by New York Times-bestselling author Scott Lynch, The Dragon Waiting is a masterpiece of blood and magic. “Had [John M. Ford] taken The Dragon Waiting and written a sequence of five books based in that world, with that power, he would’ve been George R.R. Martin.” —Neil Gaiman At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.