Joseph McBride
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Joseph McBride is an American film columnist, screenwriter and professor of film and literature.
McBride has written many articles for the Irish America magazine and several books on American film history and film directors, such as Orson Welles (1972), Hawks on Hawks (1982), Frank Capra: The Catastrophe of Success (1992), Steven Spielberg: A Biography (1997), The Book of Movie Lists (1999), and Searching for John Ford (2001). 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.
He is currently an assistant professor of cinema at San Francisco State University.
