Ep 562: Joseph McBride

Film historian and author Joseph McBride discusses his recent book “How Did Lubitsch Do It” (Columbia University Press, 2018) as well as his relationships with such filmmakers as Steven Spielberg, Orson Welles and John Ford. This is an episode not to be missed. More with McBride to come.

Film historian and author Joseph McBride discusses his recent book “How Did Lubitsch Do It” (Columbia University Press, 2018) as well as his relationships with such filmmakers as Steven Spielberg, Orson Welles and John Ford. This is an episode not to be missed. More with McBride to come.

Film historian extraordinaire, Joseph McBride, in the first of a series of visits to the podcast. This one centers on McBride’s recent biography of Hollywood director Ernst Lubitsch, “How Did Lubitsch Do It?” (Columbia University Press, 2018).

Joseph McBride is a film historian and professor in the School of Cinema at San Francisco State University. He is the author of many books, including “Frank Capra: The Catastrophe of Success” (1992), “Steven Spielberg: A Biography” (1997), “Searching for John Ford” (2001), and “What Ever Happened to Orson Welles?: A Portrait of an Independent Career” (2006). McBride, something of a Zelig figure, was also cast in the Orson Welles’ unfinished finished film “The Other Side of the Wind”.