Author: United States. Congress. HousePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 2118
Book Description
Hearings
Author: United States. Congress. HousePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 2118
Book Description
John Ford
Author: Tag GallagherPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520063341
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 588
Book Description
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.
Shantyboats and Roustabouts
Author: Gregg AndrewsPublisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807179078
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Shantyboat dwellers and steamboat roustabouts formed an organic part of the cultural landscape of the Mississippi River bottoms during the rise of industrial America and the twilight of steamboat packets from 1875 to 1930. Nevertheless, both groups remain understudied by scholars of the era. Most of what we know about these laborers on the river comes not from the work of historians but from travel accounts, novelists, songwriters, and early film producers. As a result, images of these men and women are laden with nostalgia and minstrelsy. Gregg Andrews’s Shantyboats and Roustabouts uses the waterfront squatter settlements and Black entertainment district near the levee in St. Louis as a window into the world of the river poor in the Mississippi Valley, exploring their daily struggles and experiences and vividly describing people heretofore obscured by classist and racist caricatures.
Downriver
Author: Pennington, Estill CurtisPublisher: Pelican Publishing
ISBN: 9781455603701
Category : Painting, American
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Steamboat Round the Bend
Author: Dee RichardsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Routt County (Colo.)
Languages : en
Pages : 227
Book Description
The John Ford Encyclopedia
Author: Sue MathesonPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1538103826
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 457
Book Description
The winner of four Academy Awards for directing, John Ford is considered by many to be America’s greatest native-born director. Ford helmed some of the most memorable films in American cinema, including The Grapes of Wrath, How Green Was My Valley, and The Quiet Man, as well as such iconic westerns as Stagecoach, My Darling Clementine, She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, The Searchers, and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance. In The John Ford Encyclopedia, Sue Matheson provides readers with detailed information about the acclaimed director’s films from the silent era to the 1960s. In more than 400 entries, this volume covers not only the films Ford directed and produced but also the studios for which he worked; his preferred shooting sites; his World War II documentaries; and the men and women with whom he collaborated, including actors, screenwriters, technicians, and stuntmen. Eleven newly discovered members of the John Ford Stock Company are also included. Encompassing the entire range of the director’s career—from his start in early cinema to his frequent work with national treasure John Wayne—this is a comprehensive overview of one of the most highly regarded filmmakers in history. The John Ford Encyclopedia will be of interest to professors, students, and the many fans of the director’s work.
Searching for John Ford
Author: Joseph McBridePublisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 160473468X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 883
Book Description
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.
Motion Picture Herald
Author: Between the Covers, A Revue of Books Related to Will Rogers
Author: Leland WilsonPublisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1365754987
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 736
Book Description
"Between the Covers, A Revue of Books Related to Will Rogers" is a bibliography of more than one thousand Rogers-related books including a summary and/or description of each book. This compilation covers works by Rogers, anthologies of articles about him, books concerning other individuals but which mention him, reference works, and even books on cooking and art. Users of this comprehensive work can turn to sections focused on the several identifications of the man: Native American, radio commentator, film actor, writer, aviation enthusiast, public speaker, stage performer, humorist, and philosopher.
The South and Film
Author: Warren G. FrenchPublisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 9781617035111
Category : American fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description