LEADER 04775nam 2200553 a 450 001 9910814878803321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8018-9514-6 035 $a(CKB)2520000000007603 035 $a(OCoLC)647881188 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10367601 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000337360 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11242426 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000337360 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10289719 035 $a(PQKB)10406925 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse2649 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3318521 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10367601 035 $a(OCoLC)923195461 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3318521 035 $a(EXLCZ)992520000000007603 100 $a20090501d2008 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aEssential cinema $eon the necessity of film canons /$fJonathan Rosenbaum ; with a new afterword 205 $aJohns Hopkins pbk. ed. 210 $aBaltimore, Md. $cJohns Hopkins University Press$d2008 215 $a1 online resource (468 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-8018-8971-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- I. CLASSICS -- Fables of the Reconstruction: The Four-Hour Greed -- Fascinating Rhythms: M -- The Color of Paradise: Jour de fête -- Backyard Ethics: Hitchcock's Rear Window -- Songs in the Key of Everyday Life: The Umbrellas of Cherbourg -- A Tale of the Wind: Joris Ivens's Last Testament -- Kira Muratova's Home Truths: The Asthenic Syndrome -- The Importance of Being Sarcastic: Sátántangó -- Blush -- The Ceremony -- Thieves -- True Grit: Rosetta -- II. SPECIAL PROBLEMS -- Malick's Progress -- Improvisations and Interactions in Altmanville, with an Afterword: Nashville -- Mixed Emotions: Breaking the Waves -- Fast, Cheap & -- Out of Control -- The Sweet Cheat: Time Regained -- James Benning's Four Corners -- Overrated Solutions: L'humanité -- The Sound of German: Straub-Huillet's The Death of Empedocles -- Beyond the Clouds: Return to Beauty -- Reality and History as the Apotheosis of Southern Sleaze: Phil Karlson's The Phenix City Story -- Is Ozu Slow? -- The Human Touch: Decalogue and Fargo -- III. OTHER CANONS, OTHER CANONIZERS -- Life Intimidates Art: Irma Vep -- Stanley Kwan's Actress: Writing History in Quicksand -- Critical Distance: Godard's Contempt -- Remember Amnesia? (Guy Maddin's Archangel), with an Afterword: Ten Years Later (Please Watch Carefully: The Heart of the World) -- Ragged but Right: Rivette's Up Down Fragile -- Critic with a Camera: Marker on Tarkovsky -- Riddles of a Sphinx: From the Journals of Jean Seberg -- International Harvest: National Film Histories on Video -- International Sampler: Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai -- Not the Same Old Song and Dance: The Young Girls of Rochefort -- Flaming Creatures and Scotch Tape -- Ruiz Hopping and Buried Treasures: Twelve Selected Global Sites -- IV. DISPUTABLE CONTENDERS -- Back in Style: Bertolucci's Besieged. 327 $aThe Young One: Buñuel's Neglected Masterpiece -- In Dreams Begin Responsibilities: Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut -- The Best of Both Worlds: A.I. Artificial Intelligence -- Under the Chador: The Day I Became a Woman -- Chains of Ignorance: Charles Burnett's Nightjohn -- Good Vibrations: Waking Life -- Hell on Wheels: Taxi Driver -- Meat, John, Dough: Pretty Woman -- Tashlinesque -- Weird and Wonderful: Takeshi Kitano's Kikujiro -- *Corpus Callosum -- V. FILMMAKERS -- Mann of the West -- Otto Preminger -- Nicholas Ray -- Exiles in Modernity: Films by Edward Yang -- Hou Hsiao-hsien: Becoming Taiwanese -- The Countercultural Histories of Rudy Wurlitzer -- Samuel Fuller: The Words of an Innocent Warrior -- The Mysterious Elaine May: Hiding in Plain Sight -- Visionary Agitprop: I Am Cuba -- The Battle over Orson Welles -- License to Feel: Distant Voices, Still Lives and The Neon Bible -- Death and Life: Landscapes of the Soul-The Cinema of Alexander Dovzhenko -- Appendix: 1,000 Favorites (A Personal Canon) -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z. 330 $aA 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. 606 $aMotion pictures 615 0$aMotion pictures. 676 $a791.43/09 700 $aRosenbaum$b Jonathan$0542268 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910814878803321 996 $aEssential cinema$93980803 997 $aUNINA