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10%OFFHenry K. Miller - The Essential Raymond Durgnat - 9781844574520 - V9781844574520
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The Essential Raymond Durgnat

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Description for The Essential Raymond Durgnat Hardback. Raymond Durgnat (1932-2002) was one of the best-regarded film critics of his time. A maverick voice in the golden age of film culture, his work appeared in every significant film publication in Britain and the USA. Thoroughly introduced and annotated, this career-spanning collection brings together his essential writing for the very first time. Editor(s): Miller, Henry Knight. Num Pages: 256 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APFA; APFG. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 153 x 20. Weight in Grams: 561.
Raymond durgnat was a maverick voice during the golden age of film criticism. From the French new Wave and the rise of auteurism, through the late 1960s counter-culture, to the rejuvenated Hollywood of the 1970s, his work appeared in dozens of publications in Britain, France and the USA.

At once evoking the film culture of his own times and anticipating our digital age in which technology allows everyone to create their own 'moving image-text combos', durgnat's writings touch on crucial questions in film criticism that resonate more than ever today.

Bringing together durgnat's essential writing for ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781844574520
SKU
V9781844574520
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About Henry K. Miller
Raymond Durgnat (1932–2002) was a film critic and author of many groundbreaking books on cinema, including Films and Feelings (1967), A Mirror for England (1970; 2011), and The Strange Case of Alfred Hitchcock (1974). Henry K. Miller is a regular contributor to Sight & Sound and has taught film at the University of Cambridge, UK.

Reviews for The Essential Raymond Durgnat
Cutting to the chase, this is the most welcome film book of the year - and one of the most fascinating... If anything can bring back long, hard looks at movies, this will.' - Sight and Sound 'Now, 12 years after this great critic's death at the age of 69, we finally have this superbly edited volume, encompassing previously uncollected ... Read more

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