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John Ford
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.
John Ford
Ford was one of a select number of film directors who was a master of both silent and sound movies. He was extraordinarily prolific, directing around 150 films spanning almost fifty years of film-making in which The Iron Horse (1924), Stagecoach (1939), The Grapes of Wrath (1940), How Green Was My Valley (1941), The Searchers (1956) and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962) are classics of cinema. Ford was also a great technical virtuoso and innovator. Stylistically he was instrumental in developing new camera techniques, atmospheric lighting and diverse narrative devices.
Searching for John Ford
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.
John Ford
John Ford è un gigante del cinema, il grande padre del western, un narratore superbo e un raffinato inventore di immagini. Tra il 1917 e il 1966 ha attraversato quasi tutti i generi del cinema classico, è passato dal muto al sonoro, dal bianco e nero al colore e al Cinemascope, dall'egemonia dello Studio System hollywoodiano al suo declino, dimostrando sempre una visione potente e complessa della società e della storia americane, di cui è stato uno dei più geniali testimoni.
About John Ford
The career of John Ford, considered by some to be America s greatest film director, spanned nearly half a century. With masterpieces like Stagecoach, The Informer, The Grapes of Wrath, and The Searchers, he was one of the world s most popular filmmakers and one of the most universally admired. About John Ford is a critical interpretation and a personal tribute. Lindsay Anderson s comprehensive survey of Ford s work has the authority of a writer who was himself a distinguished filmmaker, and the portrait that emerges has the vividness and warmth of friendship. About John Ford leaves no room for challenge. David Robinson, The Times (London)"
The Works of John Ford
Reprint of the original, first published in 1869.
Print the Legend
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.
