Joseph McBride
Encyclopedia
Joseph McBride is an American film
historian
, biographer, screenwriter
and Associate Professor of Cinema at San Francisco State University.
McBride has published 15 books including acclaimed biographies of Steven Spielberg, Frank Capra, and John Ford. His most recent work is an updated edition of his 1997 book Steven Spielberg: A Biography. The new edition was published in 2011 by the University Press of Mississippi which also reprinted his biographies Frank Capra: The Catastrophe of Success (1992; 2000) and Searching
for John Ford (2001). His other books include: Orson Welles (1972; 1996), Hawks on Hawks (1982), The Book of Movie Lists: An Offbeat, Provocative Collection of the Best and Worst of Everything in Movies (1999), and What Ever to Happened to Orson Welles?: A Portrait of an Independent Career (2006). His next book is Writing in Pictures: Screenwriting Made (Mostly) Painless, which will
be published in 2012.
His screenwritings include the movie Rock 'n' Roll High School
and five American Film Institute
Life Achievement Award
specials on CBS
-TV dealing with Fred Astaire
, Frank Capra
, Lillian Gish
, John Huston
, and James Stewart
.
In 1983, McBride received the Writers Guild of America
Award for the American Film Institute Salute to John Huston. He further received two Emmy nominations.
A documentary feature on McBride's life and work, Behind the Curtain: Joseph McBride on Writing Film History, written and directed by Hart Perez, had its world debut on April 10, 2011 at the Tiburon International Film Festival in Tiburon, Marin County, CA.
Film
A film, also called a movie or motion picture, is a series of still or moving images. It is produced by recording photographic images with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects...
historian
Historian
A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the study of all history in time. If the individual is...
, biographer, screenwriter
Screenwriter
Screenwriters or scriptwriters or scenario writers are people who write/create the short or feature-length screenplays from which mass media such as films, television programs, Comics or video games are based.-Profession:...
and Associate Professor of Cinema at San Francisco State University.
McBride has published 15 books including acclaimed biographies of Steven Spielberg, Frank Capra, and John Ford. His most recent work is an updated edition of his 1997 book Steven Spielberg: A Biography. The new edition was published in 2011 by the University Press of Mississippi which also reprinted his biographies Frank Capra: The Catastrophe of Success (1992; 2000) and Searching
for John Ford (2001). His other books include: Orson Welles (1972; 1996), Hawks on Hawks (1982), The Book of Movie Lists: An Offbeat, Provocative Collection of the Best and Worst of Everything in Movies (1999), and What Ever to Happened to Orson Welles?: A Portrait of an Independent Career (2006). His next book is Writing in Pictures: Screenwriting Made (Mostly) Painless, which will
be published in 2012.
His screenwritings include the movie Rock 'n' Roll High School
Rock 'n' Roll High School
Rock 'n' Roll High School is a 1979 musical comedy film produced by Roger Corman, directed by Allan Arkush, and featuring the Ramones.The film starred P. J. Soles, Vince Van Patten, and Clint Howard...
and five American Film Institute
American Film Institute
The American Film Institute is an independent non-profit organization created by the National Endowment for the Arts, which was established in 1967 when President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act...
Life Achievement Award
AFI Life Achievement Award
The AFI Life Achievement Award was established by the Board of Directors of the American Film Institute on February 26, 1973 to honor a single individual for his or her lifetime contribution to enriching American culture through motion pictures and television....
specials on CBS
CBS
CBS Broadcasting Inc. is a major US commercial broadcasting television network, which started as a radio network. The name is derived from the initials of the network's former name, Columbia Broadcasting System. The network is sometimes referred to as the "Eye Network" in reference to the shape of...
-TV dealing with Fred Astaire
Fred Astaire
Fred Astaire was an American film and Broadway stage dancer, choreographer, singer and actor. His stage and subsequent film career spanned a total of 76 years, during which he made 31 musical films. He was named the fifth Greatest Male Star of All Time by the American Film Institute...
, Frank Capra
Frank Capra
Frank Russell Capra was a Sicilian-born American film director. He emigrated to the U.S. when he was six, and eventually became a creative force behind major award-winning films during the 1930s and 1940s...
, Lillian Gish
Lillian Gish
Lillian Diana Gish was an American stage, screen and television actress whose film acting career spanned 75 years, from 1912 to 1987....
, John Huston
John Huston
John Marcellus Huston was an American film director, screenwriter and actor. He wrote most of the 37 feature films he directed, many of which are today considered classics: The Maltese Falcon , The Treasure of the Sierra Madre , Key Largo , The Asphalt Jungle , The African Queen , Moulin Rouge...
, and James Stewart
James Stewart (actor)
James Maitland Stewart was an American film and stage actor, known for his distinctive voice and his everyman persona. Over the course of his career, he starred in many films widely considered classics and was nominated for five Academy Awards, winning one in competition and receiving one Lifetime...
.
In 1983, McBride received the Writers Guild of America
Writers Guild of America
The Writers Guild of America is a generic term referring to the joint efforts of two different US labor unions:* The Writers Guild of America, East , representing TV and film writers East of the Mississippi....
Award for the American Film Institute Salute to John Huston. He further received two Emmy nominations.
A documentary feature on McBride's life and work, Behind the Curtain: Joseph McBride on Writing Film History, written and directed by Hart Perez, had its world debut on April 10, 2011 at the Tiburon International Film Festival in Tiburon, Marin County, CA.