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Celluloid Power
David Platt
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Description for Celluloid Power
Hardback. Reprints the insightful contributions of more than fifty screenwriters, directors, producers, historians, and critics on diverse films from the earliest years of the film industry through the 1970s. Num Pages: 652 pages, Illustrations plans transparencies :Includes indexes. BIC Classification: 3JJ; APF; HBT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 220 x 153 x 45. Weight in Grams: 903.
In this unique anthology of social criticism, David Platt reprints the insightful contributions of more than fifty screenwriters, directors, producers, historians, and critics—men and women, radical and liberal, including not a few former political prisoners, deportees, and exiles—on diverse films from the earliest years of the film industry through the 1970s. Documentary films are included, and close attention is paid to nationalities and minorities. Among the contributors are Maxim Gorky, David Platt, Anthony Slide, Lewis Milestone, Jay Leyda, Kevin Brownlow, Harry Alan Potamkin, S.M. Einstein, Lewis Jacobs, Leo Seltzer, Albert Maltz, Ring Lardner, Jr., Jean Renoir, Abraham Polonsky, Lorraine Hansberry, ... Read more
In this unique anthology of social criticism, David Platt reprints the insightful contributions of more than fifty screenwriters, directors, producers, historians, and critics—men and women, radical and liberal, including not a few former political prisoners, deportees, and exiles—on diverse films from the earliest years of the film industry through the 1970s. Documentary films are included, and close attention is paid to nationalities and minorities. Among the contributors are Maxim Gorky, David Platt, Anthony Slide, Lewis Milestone, Jay Leyda, Kevin Brownlow, Harry Alan Potamkin, S.M. Einstein, Lewis Jacobs, Leo Seltzer, Albert Maltz, Ring Lardner, Jr., Jean Renoir, Abraham Polonsky, Lorraine Hansberry, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
Scarecrow Press United States
Number of pages
652
Condition
New
Number of Pages
652
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9780810824423
SKU
V9780810824423
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99-15
About David Platt
David Platt, a self-educated film journalist who was born in the Ukraine and grew up in Pennsylvania, founded the journal Experimantal Cinema in 1930 and wrote hundreds of film reviews for the Daily Worker and Jewish Currents between 1933 and 1990. As National Secretary of the Film and Photo League he edited its journal, Film Front, reprinted by Scarecrow Press ... Read more
Reviews for Celluloid Power
In addition to pieces by neglected critics he has also included firsthand accounts by filmmakers and distributors....Equally important is his rescue from obscurity of essays with a social, if not specifically political angle....Recommended...
CHOICE
A scholarly and important collection...
Film Review Annual
As a celebration of artistic and intellectual aspiration in the face of perennial injustice, ... Read more
CHOICE
A scholarly and important collection...
Film Review Annual
As a celebration of artistic and intellectual aspiration in the face of perennial injustice, ... Read more