04738nam 22007335 450 99624820640331620221107215752.00-520-91495-30-585-29939-010.1525/9780520914957(CKB)111057870445274(dli)HEB08129(SSID)ssj0000222084(PQKBManifestationID)12085044(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000222084(PQKBWorkID)10183486(PQKB)10041482(DE-B1597)543382(DE-B1597)9780520914957(OCoLC)1163877973(MiU)MIU01000000000000009841835(MiAaPQ)EBC30696808(Au-PeEL)EBL30696808(OCoLC)1394118411(EXLCZ)9911105787044527420200707h19951995 fg engurmnummmmuuuutxtccrPlacing movies the practice of film criticism /Jonathan RosenbaumReprint 2019Berkeley, CA :University of California Press,[1995]©19951 online resource (ix, 337 p. )Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-520-08633-3 0-520-08632-5 Includes bibliographical references (p. 315-321) and index.Frontmatter --Contents --Dedication and Acknowledgments --Starting Out in Film Criticism --Introduction --Theory and Practice --Film Comment Journals, 1974-1977: --Edinburgh Encounters: --Barthes & Film: --A Bluffer's Guide to Bèla Tarr --They Drive by Night: --Introduction --Ozu's GOOD MORNING --Aspects Or ANATAHAN --Gold Diggers of 1953: --Gertrud as Nonnarrative --The Manchurian Candidate --OTHELLO Goes Hollywood --Introduction --Work and Play in the House of Fiction --The Tyranny of Sensitivity --Love Films --The Death of Hulot --Orson Welles's Essay Films and Documentary Fictions: --The Importance of Being Perverse: --Alain Resnais and MÈLO --Introduction --Jerri Lewis's HARDLY WORKING --DOOMED LOVE: --RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK --Mapping the Territory of Radl Ruiz --Notes Toward the Devaluation of Woody Allen --Crass Consciousness: --Introduction --Bird Watching --Jean Vigo's Secret --Guilty by Omission --His Master's Vice --Government Lies --A Cinema of Uncertainty: --Bibliography --IndexJonathan 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 films--from 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 element--Rosenbaum's reflections on the art of film criticism--that 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.ACLS Humanities E-Book.Motion picturesReviewsFilm criticismMotion picturesReviewsFilm criticismMusic, Dance, Drama & FilmHILCCFilmHILCCMotion picturesReviews.Film criticism.Motion picturesReviewsFilm criticismMusic, Dance, Drama & FilmFilm791.43/75Rosenbaum Jonathanauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut542268American Council of Learned Societies.DE-B1597DE-B1597BOOK996248206403316Placing Movies2357071UNISA