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

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910459701403321
• Autore: McBride Joseph <1947->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Jackson [Miss.], : University Press of Mississippi, 2011
• ISBN: 1-283-04914-7; 9786613049148; 1-60473-468-X
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (883 p.)
• Disciplina: 791.4302/33092; B
• Soggetti: Motion picture producers and directors - United States; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Originally published: New York : St Martin's Griffin, 1999.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Filmography: p. [797]-803.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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