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Jonathan Rosenbaum - Essential Cinema: On the Necessity of Film Canons - 9780801889714 - V9780801889714
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Essential Cinema: On the Necessity of Film Canons

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Description for Essential Cinema: On the Necessity of Film Canons Paperback. A cogent and provocative argument about the art of film, Essential Cinema is a fiercely independent reference book of must-see movies for film lovers everywhere. Num Pages: 472 pages. BIC Classification: APF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 232 x 164 x 32. Weight in Grams: 672.
In his astute and deeply informed film reviews and essays, Jonathan Rosenbaum regularly provides new and brilliant insights into the cinema as art, entertainment, and commerce. Guided by a personal canon of great films, Rosenbaum sees, in the ongoing hostility toward the idea of a canon shared by many within the field of film studies, a missed opportunity both to shape the discussion about cinema and to help inform and guide casual and serious filmgoers alike. In Essential Cinema, Rosenbaum forcefully argues that canons of great films are more necessary than ever, given that film culture today is ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
472
Condition
New
Number of Pages
472
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9780801889714
SKU
V9780801889714
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About Jonathan Rosenbaum
Jonathan Rosenbaum is film critic for the Chicago Reader and the author or editor of fourteen books, including Movie Wars: How Hollywood and the Media Limit What Films We Can See, Movies as Politics, and Placing Movies: The Practice of Film Criticism.

Reviews for Essential Cinema: On the Necessity of Film Canons
A virtuoso collection by one of the finest film critics currently active... His passions are unusually diverse... There's nothing here that won't enrich the reader in some way. If you have seen the film already, you will see it better. If you haven't seen it, you will want to. The Times of London 2004 Rosenbaum's passionate, thoughtful, and richly informed ... Read more

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