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Jonathan Rosenbaum, longtime contributor to such publications as Film Quarterly, Sight and Sound, and The Village Voice, is arguably the most eloquent, insightful film critic writing in America today. Placing Movies, the first collection of his work, gathers together thirty of his most distinctive and illuminating pieces. Written over a span of twenty-one years, these essays cover an extraordinarily broad range of filmsfrom Hollywood blockbusters to foreign art movies to experimental cinema. They include not just reviews but perceptive commentary on directors, actors, and trends; and thoughtful analysis of the practice of film criticism.It is this last elementRosenbaum's reflections on the art of film criticismthat sets this collection apart from other volumes of film writing. Both in the essays themselves and in the section introductions, Rosenbaum provides a rare insider's view of his profession: the backstage politics, the formulation of critical judgments, the function of film commentary. Taken together, these pieces serve as a guided tour of the profession of film criticism.They also serve as representative samples of Rosenbaum's unique brand of film writing. Among the highlights are memoirs of director Jacques Tati and maverick critic Manny Farber, celebrations of classics such as Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and The Manchurian Candidate, and considered reevaluations of Orson Welles and Woody Allen.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780520086333 |
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Publisher: | University of California Press |
Publication date: | 05/10/1995 |
Edition description: | First Edition |
Pages: | 348 |
Product dimensions: | 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.90(d) |
About the Author
Jonathan Rosenbaum, film critic at the Chicago Reader, is author of Greed (1993) and Film: The Front Line 1983. He is also coauthor, with J. Hoberman, of Midnight Movies (1983).
Table of Contents
Dedication and Acknowledgments Starting Out in Film Criticism One. The Critical Apparatus Introduction Theory and Practice: The Criticism of Jean-Luc Godard Film Comment Journals, 1974-1977: Excerpts Edinburgh Encounters: A Consumers/Producers Guide-in-Progress to Four Recent Avant-Garde Films Barthes & Film: 12 Suggestions A Bluffer's Guide to Bela Tarr They Drive by Night: The Criticism of Manny Farber Two. Touchstones Introduction Ozu's GOOD MORNING Aspects of ANATAHAN Gold Diggers of 1953: Howard Hawks's GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES GERTRUD as Nonnarrative: The Desire for the Image THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE OTHELLO Goes Hollywood Three. Filinmakers Introduction Work and Play in the House of Fiction: On Jacques Rivette The Tyranny of Sensitivity Love Films: A Cassavetes Retrospective The Death of Hulot Orson Welles's Essay Films and Documentary Fictions: A Two-Part Speculation The Importance of Being Perverse: Godard's KING LEAR Alain Resnais and MELO Four. Provocations Introduction Jerry Lewis's HARDLY WORKING DOOMED LOVE: The Masterpiece You Missed RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK Mapping the Territory of Rlh11 Ruiz Notes Toward the Devaluation of Woody Allen Crass Consciousness: BARTON FINK Five. Inside and Outside the Movie Theater Introduction Bird Watching Jean Vigo's Secret: L' ATALANTE Guilty by Omission His Master's Vice: Fuller's WHITE DOG Government Lies: THE PANAMA DECEPTION and DEEP COYER A Cinema of Uncertainty: Films by Michelangelo Antonioni Bibliography IndexCustomer Reviews
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