Placing movies : the practice of film criticism / / Jonathan Rosenbaum

• Autore: Rosenbaum Jonathan
• Pubblicazione: Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [1995]; ©1995
• Edizione: Reprint 2019
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (ix, 337 p. )
• Disciplina: 791.43/75
• Soggetto topico: Motion pictures - Reviews; Film criticism; Music, Dance, Drama & Film; Film
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 315-321) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Jonathan 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Placing Movies
• ISBN: 0-520-91495-3; 0-585-29939-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 996248206403316
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno
• Serie: ACLS Humanities E-Book.