{"product_id":"i-loved-movies-but-hardcover","title":"I Loved Movies, But... - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJoseph McBride\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eDanny Peary\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe novelist Jonathan Lethem, in his Foreword to \u003cem\u003eI Loved Movies, But..\u003c\/em\u003e., calls Joseph McBride \"an example to me, of discipline, versatility, and abiding with one's obsessions against all odds.... What animates my desire to follow Joe to any lengths, on any subject he engages, whether I already agree with him (Welles! Ford! Hawks! Lubitsch!) or am being seduced into a new exploration (Cukor) or have yet to be fully persuaded (Spielberg) or lack the equipment to judge (Officer Tippit), my response is uniform; I need to know what he thinks; I'm addicted to his form of inquiry and electrified by his gentle ferocity in pursuit of undisclosed or falsified truths. Joe McBride is a seeker, and however disarmingly plainspoken his writing may appear to be, his search, and his rage for truth is a force animating every line he writes. This creates a thrilling energy, a pulse or backbeat in his thought and expression.... In this book of conversation, we learn the personal underpinnings of Joe's voice.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn\u003cem\u003e I Loved Movies, But...\u003c\/em\u003e, celebrated historian, critic, screenwriter, and emeritus professor Joseph McBride turns the lens on himself in a candid, wide-ranging conversation with a longtime friend, the film historian and baseball biographer Danny Peary. Across formative childhood traumas, Hollywood adventures, investigative reporting, landmark biographies and critical studies, and decades of teaching, McBride's life has been characterized by his relentless search for truth-about movies, politics and history, and himself. Honest, funny, unsparing, and deeply humane, this book is both a revelatory autobiography and a love letter to the culture of cinephilia, brimming with stories of Orson Welles, John Ford, Frank Capra, Steven Spielberg, and the obsessive joy of a life spent wrestling with the magic and the seductive illusions of cinema.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 732\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.56 x 9.2 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 21, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44245031911475,"sku":"9798899760358","price":162.52,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0693\/2191\/6467\/files\/1Vq7baBni9798899760358.webp?v=1777644754","url":"https:\/\/thereadinghousebookcompany.com\/products\/i-loved-movies-but-hardcover","provider":"The Reading House Book Company","version":"1.0","type":"link"}