FMS Colloquium Lecture Series: Lea Jacobs "Ford at Work: Making Young Mr. Lincoln"

FMS Colloquium Lecture Series: Lea Jacobs (University of Wisconsin Madison, Professor Emerita of Communication Arts)

"Ford at Work: Making Young Mr. Lincoln"

From John Libbey Publishing & Indiana University Press

 

John Ford at Work explores the evolution of Ford’s career in the Hollywood studio system of the 1930s as the system itself changed in response to the coming of sound and the business downturn of the Depression. Based upon a decade of 
research utilizing the studio files of Twentieth Century-Fox, RKO and Samuel Goldwyn it delineates the director’s collaborations with the producers, screenwriters, actors and cinematographers that had the most impact on his production practices. It traces the major literary, cinematic and musical sources from which he drew. It considers relevant changes in film technology and seeks to explain how they were incorporated into his style. Films analyzed include 4 Sons, The Black Watch, Arrowsmith, Air Mail, The Lost Patrol, The Informer, Judge Priest, Steamboat Round the Bend, The Prisoner of Shark Island, Wee Willie Winkie, Stagecoach and Young Mr. Lincoln. The book is illustrated with 300 black 
and white photographs. 

 

Lea Jacobs specializes in the history of the Hollywood studio system to 1960. She is the author of The Wages of Sin: Censorship and the Fallen Woman Film, Theatre to Cinema, The Decline of Sentiment: American Film in the 1920s and Film Rhythm After Sound: Technology, Music and Performance. 

See leajacobs.net for more information.
eBook: 9780861969951, $31.99
Paperback: 9780861967575, $32.00
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