The great director John Ford (1894-1973) is best known for classic westerns, but his body of work encompasses much more than this single genre. Jeffrey Richards develops and broadens our understanding of Ford's film-making oeuvre by studying his non-Western films through the lens of Ford's life and abiding preoccupations. Ford's other cinematic worlds included Ireland, the Family, Catholicism, War and the Sea, which share with his westerns the recurrent themes of memory and loss, the plight of outsiders and the tragedy of family breakup. Richards' revisionist study both provides new insights into familiar films such as The Fugitive (1947); The Quiet Man (1952), Gideon's Way and The Informer (1935) and reclaims neglected masterpieces, among them Wee Willie Winkie (1937) and the extraordinary The Long Voyage Home. (1940).
Author(s): Jeffrey Richards
Series: Cinema and Society
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Year: 2020
Language: English
Pages: 352
City: London
Cover page
Halftitle page
Series page
Title page
Copyright page
Dedication
Contents
List of Illustrations
Introduction and Acknowledgments
1 John Ford: The Enigmatic Genius
Ford the Man
Ford the Artist
Ford’s Style
2 John Ford’s Ireland
3 John Ford’s Empire
4 John Ford’s Faith
5 John Ford’s Underworld
6 John Ford’s Wars
7 John Ford’s Navy
Conclusion
Index
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