John Ford
Poet in the Desert
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John Ford - Poet in the Desert is an uncommon biography. Author Joe Malham offers rarely explored facets of this dark yet towering poetic genius in a fascinating analysis of the artist's personal life. The influences on Ford's work, from art, history and politics to the man's mystical faith, are skillfully woven together with insights into Ford's famous films.
Ford, who won six Oscars, is known primarily for Westerns: The Searchers, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance and She Wore a Yellow Ribbon. Yet in movies like The Grapes of Wrath, How Green Was My Valley, The Quiet Man and They Were Expendable, Ford created timeless classics as he explored the role of myth, history, tradition and war in epic dramas of the individual, the family and community. This biography reveals how Ford's work ranged over the vast and textured richness of the human experience.
About the Author:
Joseph Malham is an iconographer, writer and speaker who studied art in Rome through Loyola University's Rome Center. He graduated from Loyola with a BA in History. Since 1999 Malham has been artist-in-residence at St. Gregory the Great Church in Chicago. His panels and icon banners have been acquired by churches and individuals around the country. Malham has lectured frequently—at the Art Institute of Chicago and various religious institutions—on the topics of iconography and religious art. His first book, By Fire into Light: Four Catholic Martyrs of the Nazi Camps, tells the stories of four heroic figures who transcended the horrors of persecution during the Second World War through their experiences of faith.
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Joseph Malham's John Ford: Poet in the Desert ... is an intimate, passionate portrait of a troubled cinematic genius. Malham re-tells the story of our American Shakespeare, a superb visual storyteller and mythmaker. A fellow Catholic, he's especially good at delineating the role of Ford's faith and Irish roots in the director's classic portrayals of families, communities and history. --Glenn Frankel, author of The Searchers: The Making of an American Legend, True West magazine
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