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The Lost Worlds of John Ford

The Lost Worlds of John Ford: Beyond the Western

by Jeffrey Richards

Jeffrey Richards is Professor of Cultural History, Lancaster University. His many publications in cinema & its history include The Age of the Dream Palace: Cinema & Society in Britain, 1930-39, Best of British: Cinema and Society, 1930-1970, the British Film Guide to A Night to Remember (all I.B. Tauris), and Mass Observation at the Movies. He is the General Editor of Tauris’ Cinema and Society Series. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Bloomsbury Academic, 2020
The Lost Worlds of John Ford
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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).