John Ford’s The Sun Shines Bright and the Search for a Moral Order
Set in the Jim Crow South, Ford’s depiction of race relations and its attendant moral ambiguities are discussed by Richmond Adams.
John Ford Made … Monsters? The Grotesque Tradition in Ford’s Work
“The grotesque æsthetic is a window into many of the unresolved contradictions in Ford’s work especially, the uneasy juxtaposition of the tragic and the comic and mankind’s perpetual battle with an unruly inner beast.” So writes Wagner, who traces the strong presence of the grotesque in Ford’s cinema.
John Ford’s Funeral Oration: The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962 USA 123 mins)
Prod Co: John Ford Productions/Paramount Prod: Willis Goldbeck, John Ford Dir: John Ford Scr: James Warner Bellah, Willis Goldbeck, from a story by Dorot...
A Legend that Dare Not Imprint its Name: The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962 USA 123 mins)
Prod Co: John Ford Productions/Paramount Prod: Willis Goldbeck, John Ford Dir: John Ford Scr: James Warner Bellah, Willis Goldbeck, from a story by D...
American Triptych: Vidor, Hawks and Ford
Three legendary classical directors are put under the spotlight, and the results of Gallagher’s analysis are always illuminating and surprising.
Passage: John Ford’s Young Mr. Lincoln
Noted Ford scholar Tag Gallagher casts his gaze over this well worn 1939 classic and discovers further treasures in Ford’s poetic vision.