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To learn more about Amazon Sponsored Products, click here. In fact, "Pappy" Ford, who fancied himself a journeyman director, would probably have been perplexed by these two recent additions to the rapidly growing library of Ford film criticism. Arriving hard on the heels of Scott Eyman's comprehensive Print the Legend: Ford was an insecure alcoholic whose gruff, even sadistic treatment of family, friends, cast, and crew masked his sensitive, sentimental nature.
Complex and contradictory like many of his films Ford was a man who stood up to McCarthyite blacklisters but later churned out crude propaganda in support of the Vietnam war. He celebrated tradition, family, and community but was a miserable failure as husband and father. As Eyman did, McBride Frank Capra; Steven Spielberg draws on exhaustive research and interviews, but he has the advantage of a few memorably brief meetings with the Great Man himself.
Ford left an impressive if uneven body of work, and McBride does it justice, examining each film in illuminating detail. Still, although McBride's book is very deserving, public and academic libraries that cannot collect both biographies should stick to Eyman's more streamlined telling. Studlar film and English, Univ.
Robin Wood leads off with a classic critique, questioning whether Ford's late films measure up to his early work. Other essays discuss the role of women and religion in Ford's film universe, and the hotly disputed controversy about whether his last epic Cheyenne Autumn was a "mea culpa" for previous insensitive portrayals of the American Indian.
Westerns is recommended for academic collections. Rees, Levittown Regional Lib.
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His scripts had a beginning, a middle and an end. They are understood all the world over and [stand] as a monument to part of the land he loved: Any comment is, of course, gratuitous. The film speaks for itself.
There is nothing to be said—-his films roar through our times. Frederic Remington and the Western" Edward Buscombe 7. Dossier Emanuel Eisenberg, "John Ford: My Pal," Hollywood, no. Privacy Notice Accessibility Help.