American Movie Critics: an Anthology from the Silents until Now A Library of America Special Publication

Name: American Movie Critics: an Anthology from the Silents until Now A Library of America Special Publication
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ISBN: 9781598530223

ISBN-10: 1598530224

ISBN-13: 9781598530223

Edition: 2008 (Expurgated)

Authors: Phillip Lopate, Phillip Lopate

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An anthology of unparalleled scope, American Movie Criticscharts the rise of movies as art, industry, and mass entertainment. Here are the great movie critics who forged a forceful new vernacular idiom for talking about the new art,?Otis Ferguson, James Agee, Richard Schickel, Pauline Kael, Andrew Sarris, and Molly Haskell, among them. Here too are notable American writers, including Carl Sandburg, H. L. Mencken, Susan Sontag, and John Ashbery, weighing in on a range of cinematic experiences. The volumes narrative continues to the present with a sampling of the best of todays reviewers, including J. Hoberman, Roger Ebert, A. O. Scott, and Manohla Dargis. This paperback edition includes…

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List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Library of America, The
Publication date: 1/10/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 784
Size: 6.15" wide x 9.27" long x 1.59" tall
Weight: 2.332
Language: English

Phillip Lopate is a professor at Columbia University, where he directs the graduate nonfiction program.



Introduction



Pioneers: the silent era and the transition to sound



Masters and moonlighters: the late 1930s, World War II, and the postwar era



The golden age of movie criticism: the 1950s through the 70s



Reconsiderations and renegade perspectives: the 1980s to the present


Sources and acknowledgments


Index