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19%OFFDavid Bordwell - The Rhapsodes: How 1940s Critics Changed American Film Culture - 9780226352206 - V9780226352206
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The Rhapsodes: How 1940s Critics Changed American Film Culture

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Description for The Rhapsodes: How 1940s Critics Changed American Film Culture Paperback. Num Pages: 160 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJH; 3JJPG; APFA; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 155 x 229 x 13. Weight in Grams: 290.
Pauline Kael, Andrew Sarris, and Roger Ebert were three of America's most revered and widely read film critics, more famous than many of the movies they wrote about. But their remarkable contributions to the burgeoning American film criticism of the 1960s and beyond were deeply influenced by four earlier critics: Otis Ferguson, James Agee, Manny Farber, and Parker Tyler. Throughout the 1930s and '40s, Ferguson, Agee, Farber, and Tyler scrutinized what was on the screen with an intensity not previously seen in popular reviewing. Although largely ignored by the arts media of the day, they honed the sort of serious ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
290g
Number of Pages
160
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226352206
SKU
V9780226352206
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About David Bordwell
David Bordwell is the Jacques Ledoux Professor of Film Studies Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. With Kristin Thompson, he is coauthor of Film Art: An Introduction and Film History: An Introduction and the blog Observations on Film Art, which can be found at http: //www.davidbordwell.net/blog.

Reviews for The Rhapsodes: How 1940s Critics Changed American Film Culture
Bordwell pinpoints a time in movie history when a whole new dialogue was opened up between viewers and filmmakers, and he does it with a deep love of not just pictures, but, especially, of words. The writing floats and bounces, there s jaunt and inspiration here, as good as the best work of the critics he writes about.
David Koepp, ... Read more

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