The Lost Worlds of John Ford: Beyond the Western

by Jeffrey Richards

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1350194964
• ISBN13: 9781350194960
• Release Date: July 2021
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"