American Movie Critics: An Anthology from the Silents Until Now: A Library of America Special Publication
Library of AmericaSivumäärä: 784 sivuaAsu: Pehmeäkantinen kirjaPainos: Expanded ed.Julkaisuvuosi: 2008, 01.01.2008 (lisätietoa)Kieli: Englanti An anthology of unparalleled scope, American Movie Critics charts 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 volume?s narrative continues to the present with a sampling of the best of today?s reviewers, including J. Hoberman, Roger Ebert, A. O. Scott, and Manohla Dargis. This paperback edition includes additional material reflecting the impact of the Internet and DVDs on film criticism.