John Ford

John Ford Criticism

• Ford, John (Contemporary Literary Criticism)
  • Introduction
  • Exceptional Photoplays: 'Arrowsmith'
  • Two Films
  • Exceptional Photoplays: 'The Informer'
  • 'Stagecoach'
  • Springfield to Titipu to Green City
  • French and Indians
  • Show for the People
  • 'How Green Was My Valley'
  • Portrait of the Artist
  • 'She Wore a Yellow Ribbon,' at Capitol, Stars John Wayne As a Cavalry Captain
  • John Ford: His Work Is a Portrayal of the Righteous Man
  • Retrospective Reviews: 'Wagonmaster' and 'Two Flags West'
  • Realism in the Film: A Philosopher's Viewpoint
  • The Curious Cult of John Ford
  • 'Sergeant Rutledge' and 'The Unforgiven'
  • Cactus Rosebud or 'The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance'
  • 'The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance' and 'Donovan's Reef'
  • 'Cheyenne Autumn'
  • The Auteur Theory
  • 'Young Mr. Lincoln'
  • Shall We Gather at the River?: The Late Films of John Ford
  • The Cinema of John Ford
  • 'Gone With the Wind' and 'The Grapes of Wrath' As Hollywood Histories of the Depression
  • God Bless John Ford
  • Joseph McBride and Michael Wilmington
  • 'Stagecoach'
• Ford, John (Drama Criticism)
  • Introduction
  • Principal Works
  • Overviews And General Studies
    • Fordian Tragedy
    • Ford's Tragic Perspective
    • The Case of John Ford
    • Brother-Sister Relationships in Ford's 1633 Plays
  • 'Tis Pity She's A Whore
    • 'Tis Pity She's a Whore
    • 'Tis Pity She's a Whore
    • 'Tis Pity She's a Whore
    • By Nature's Light: The Morality of 'Tis Pity She's a Whore
    • 'Tis Pity She's a Whore
    • 'Tis Pity She's a Whore: Representing the Incestuous Body
  • The Broken Heart
    • Review of The Broken Heart
    • The Broken Heart
    • Duty-Bound in Sparta
    • The Decorum of Dying: The Broken Heart
    • Struggle for Calm: The Dramatic Structure of The Broken Heart
  • Perkin Warbeck
    • Kingship in Ford's Perkin Warbeck
    • "Perkin Warbeck" as Anti-History
  • Further Reading
• Ford, John (Literary Criticism (1400-1800))
  • Introduction
  • Principal Works
  • Criticism
    • Prologue to Perkin Warbeck
    • The Lady's Trial
    • John Ford
    • Biographia Dramatica; Or, A Companion to the Playhouse Containing Historical and Critical Memoirs and Original Anecdotes of British and Irish Dramatic Writers
    • The Broken Heart
    • Lecture IV
    • Fourth Conversation
    • John Ford
    • John Ford
    • Introduction to John Ford (Five Plays)
    • The Fourth Dramatic Period
    • The Setting of the Plays
    • Fame and Confusion
    • Ford and Jacobean Tragedy
    • Kingship in Ford's Perkin Warbeck
    • John Ford
    • 'Tis Pity She's a Whore
    • The Language of Process in Ford's The Broken Heart
    • The Language of Cruelty in Ford's 'Tis Pity She's a Whore
    • Moral Knowledge and the Double Action in The Witch of Edmonton
    • Structure and History in The Broken Heart: Sparta, England, and the ‘Truth.’
    • The Rationalization of Conflicts in John Ford's The Lady's Trial
    • Touching Touchets: Perkin Warbeck and the Buggery Statute
  • Further Reading