John Ford's America

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de Jeffrey Richards

Type

Studies

Sujet

Director > John Ford

Mots Clés

John Ford, sociology, United States

Année d'édition

2026 (January 20, 2026)

Editeur

Manchester University Press

1ere édition

2024

Langue

anglais

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Format

Paperback • 350 pages
6 x 9 ¼ inches (15.5 x 23.5 cm)

ISBN

978-1-5261-9536-4

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Description de l'ouvrage:
By the time of his death in 1973, John Ford was probably the most celebrated director of Hollywood’s golden age. The winner of four best director Oscars, he was the first filmmaker to be awarded his country’s highest civilian honour, the Medal of Freedom, and the man chosen by the American Film Institute to receive its first life achievement award.

In his work, Ford returned regularly to the same themes, employed the same actors and had a visual style that was personal and distinctive. This volume explores his preoccupations throughout his long, garlanded career, showing how he attempted to come to terms with American history, with how America kept changing its relationship with history and with how many of the myths of the ‘West’ were just that – myths.

À propos de l'auteur :
Jeffrey Richards is Emeritus Professor of Cultural History at Lancaster University

Revue de Presse:
' The book explores notions of family, community, and nation and the struggle of social outcasts to find a place within those worlds... Ford’s problematic representation of Black people and Native Americans is weighed against his more sympathetic treatments of these communities in films made later in his career, such as Sergeant Rutledge (1960) and Cheyenne Autumn (1964), not to mention films like The Searchers (1956) that foregrounded and exposed white racism.'
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