Searching For John Ford

Author : Joseph McBride
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 983 pages
File Size : 52,7 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 : Joseph McBride
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 883 pages
File Size : 54,8 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 : Scott Eyman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 50,9 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 : Joseph McBride
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 838 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Motion picture producers and directors
ISBN : 0571225004

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Searching for John Ford by Joseph McBride Pdf

This biography provides rare insights into Ford's life as well as his prodigious film career (spanning over 140 movies), and also reveals his work as a spy for the US government in the years leading up to World War II.

Author : Joseph McBride
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Motion picture producers and directors
ISBN : 0571200753

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Searching for John Ford by Joseph McBride Pdf

Author : Tag Gallagher
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 588 pages
File Size : 44,9 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 Allen Nollen
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 50,7 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 : Kathryn M. Kalinak
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 44,9 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 : Kevin L. Stoehr,Michael C. Connolly
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2007-12-06
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780786432158

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John Ford in Focus by Kevin L. Stoehr,Michael C. Connolly Pdf

"This collection of essays offers a comprehensive examination of his life and career. Part one provides an overview of Ford's importance in the early development of cinema. Part two focuses on Ford's personal life. Part three explores theories that explai

Author : John Ford
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2006-07-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134944484

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'Tis Pity She's A Whore by John Ford Pdf

The last decade has seen a revival of interest in John Ford and especially 'Tis Pity She's a Whore, his tragedy of religious scepticism, incestuous love, and revenge. This text in particular has provided a focus for scholarship as well as being the subject of a number of major theatrical productions. Simon Barker guides the reader through the full range of previous interpretations of the play; moving from an overview of traditional readings he goes on to enlarge upon new questions that have arisen as a consequence of critical and cultural theory.

Author : Glenn Frankel
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2013-02-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781620400647

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The Searchers by Glenn Frankel Pdf

New York Times Bestseller Named one of the best books of the year by: Parade The Guardian Kirkus Library Journal The true story behind the classic Western The Searchers by Pulitzer Prize-wining writer Glenn Frankel that the New York Times calls "A vivid, revelatory account of John Ford's 1956 masterpiece." In 1836 in East Texas, nine-year-old Cynthia Ann Parker was kidnapped by Comanches. She was raised by the tribe and eventually became the wife of a warrior. Twenty-four years after her capture, she was reclaimed by the U.S. cavalry and Texas Rangers and restored to her white family, to die in misery and obscurity. Cynthia Ann's story has been told and re-told over generations to become a foundational American tale. The myth gave rise to operas and one-act plays, and in the 1950s to a novel by Alan LeMay, which would be adapted into one of Hollywood's most legendary films, The Searchers, "The Biggest, Roughest, Toughest... and Most Beautiful Picture Ever Made!" directed by John Ford and starring John Wayne. Glenn Frankel, beginning in Hollywood and then returning to the origins of the story, creates a rich and nuanced anatomy of a timeless film and a quintessentially American myth. The dominant story that has emerged departs dramatically from documented history: it is of the inevitable triumph of white civilization, underpinned by anxiety about the sullying of white women by "savages." What makes John Ford's film so powerful, and so important, Frankel argues, is that it both upholds that myth and undermines it, baring the ambiguities surrounding race, sexuality, and violence in the settling of the West and the making of America.

Author : Harry Carey, Jr.
Publisher : Taylor Trade Publishing
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2013-12-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781589799110

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Company of Heroes by Harry Carey, Jr. Pdf

When Harry Carey, Sr., died in 1947, director John Ford cast Carey's twenty-six-year-old son, Harry, Jr., in the role of The Abilene Kid in 3 Godfathers. Ford and the elder Carey had filmed an earlier version of the story, and Ford dedicated the Technicolor remake to his memory. Company of Heroes is the story of the making of that film, as well as the eight subsequent Ford classics. In it, Harry Carey, Jr., casts a remarkably observant eye on the process of filming Westerns by one of the true masters of the form. From She Wore a Yellow Ribbon and Wagonmaster to The Searchers and Cheyenne Autumn, he shows the care, tedium, challenge, and exhilaration of movie-making at its highest level. Carey's portrayal of John Ford at work is the most intimate ever written. He also gives us insightful and original portraits of the men and women who were part of Ford's vision of America: John Wayne, Richard Widmark, Henry Fonda, Maureen O'Hara, Ward Bond, Victor McLaglen, and Ben Johnson. Funny, insightful, and brutally honest, Company of Heroes is a rip-roaring good read that presents the remarkable life story of Harry Carey, Jr., and his many fine performances.

Author : John M. Ford
Publisher : Tor Books
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2024-04-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781250269157

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Web of Angels by John M. Ford Pdf

From the brilliant author of The Dragon Waiting and Growing Up Weightless, a novel that saw the cyberpunk future with stunning clarity, years before anyone else. Originally published in 1980, the legendary John M. Ford’s first published novel was an uncannily brilliant anticipation of the later cyberpunk genre—and of the internet itself. The Web links the many worlds of humanity. Most people can only use it to communicate. Some can retrieve and store data, as well as use simple precoded programs. Only a privileged few are able to create their own software, within proscribed limits. And then there are the Webspinners. Grailer is Fourth Literate, able to manipulate the Web at will—and use it for purposes unintended and impossible for anyone but the most talented Webspinner. Obviously, he cannot be allowed to live. Condemned to death at the age of nine, Grailer must go underground, hiding his skills, testing his powers- until he is ready to do battle with the Web itself. With a new introduction from Cory Doctorow, written especially for this edition. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : Peter Bogdanovich
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Motion picture producers and directors
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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John Ford by Peter Bogdanovich Pdf

Author : Richard Llewellyn
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2009-06-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781439164938

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How Green Was My Valley by Richard Llewellyn Pdf

"How Green Was My Valley" is Richard Llewellyn's bestselling -- and timeless -- classic and the basis of a beloved film. As Huw Morgan is about to leave home forever, he reminisces about the golden days of his youth when South Wales still prospered, when coal dust had not yet blackened the valley. Drawn simply and lovingly, with a crisp Welsh humor, Llewellyn's characters fight, love, laugh and cry, creating an indelible portrait of a people.