The Lost Worlds of John Ford - Beyond the Western (Hardcover)

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).

General

Imprint:	Bloomsbury Academic
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Cinema and Society
Release date:	February 2020
Authors:	Jeffrey Richards
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 27mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	352
ISBN-13:	978-1-350-11470-8
Categories:	Books > Fiction > Genre fiction > Westerns Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Communication studies > Media studies Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > Films, cinema > Individual film directors, film-makers
LSN:	1-350-11470-7
Barcode:	9781350114708

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