| Description |
xxii, 391 pages ; 21 cm |
| Contents |
1. In defense of a popular new art form Thirty differences between the photoplays and the stage (1915) / Vachel Lindsay -- The Keystone the builders rejected (1923) / Gilbert Seldes -- Style and medium in the motion pictures (1934; revised 1947) / Erwin Panofsky -- Life goes to the pictures (1940) / Otis Ferguson -- David Wark Griffith (1948) / James Agee -- Underground films (1957) / Manny Farber -- Bonnie and Clyde (1967) -- 2. Film as high art The passion of Jeanne d'Arc (1929) / Harry Alan Potamkin -- M (1933) / William Troy -- La notte (1962) / Stanley Kauffmann -- 8 1/2: Fellini's obvious masterpiece (1964) / Dwight Macdonald -- The passion of Anna (1970) -- 3. Critical method Preface to The immediate experience (1954) / Robert Warshow -- Circles and squares: joys and Sarris (1963) / Pauline Kael -- A critical credo (1967) / John Simon -- Toward a theory of film history -introduction to The American cinema (1968) / Andrew Sarris -- State of siege (1973) / Andrew Sarris -- Notes on a screenwriter's theory, 1973 -introduction to Talking pictures (1973) / Richard Corliss -- 4. Genres Comedy's greatest era (1949) / James Agee -- The Westerner (1954) / Robert Warshow -- The imagination of disaster (1967) / Susan Sontag -- Notes on Film noir (1972) / Paul Schrader -- 5. Directors Undirectable director: John Huston (1950) / James Agee -- Preston Sturges: success in the movies (1954) / Manny Farber (with W.S. Poster) -- John Ford: The grapes of wrath (1973) / Andrew Sarris -- Notes on the nihilist poetry of Sam Peckinpah (1976) -- 6. Performers Cagney: great guy (1937) / Otis Ferguson -- The decline of the actor (1966) / Manny Farber -- The awful fate of the sex goddess (1968) / Parker Tyler -- Langdon (1971) / Penelope Gilliatt -- Marlon Brando (1973) / Molly Haskell -- 7. Entertainment Artists among the flickers (Three songs about Lenin) (1934) / Otis Ferguson -- Three short reviews (1945-48) / James Agee -- The greatest story ever told (1965) / Dwight Macdonald -- Three program notes (1966) / Pauline Kael |
| Summary |
"Contrary to the claims of the American Jewish establishment and the Israel lobby, Jews do not speak with one voice about the Middle East. Since the late nineteenth century some of the fiercest and most eloquent critics of Israel and Zionism have been Jewish thinkers. Unconditional supporters of the state of Israel have denounced them as heretics or "self-hating Jews." Yet as Palestine and Israel are once again engulfed by violence, their warnings about the Zionist project, with its vision of an ethnically pure Jewish State, have never seemed more prescient. Theirs is a tradition which it is ever more urgent to reclaim."--BOOK JACKET |
| Notes |
Includes index |
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Also issued online |
| Subject |
Film criticism -- United States.
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Film criticism.
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Motion pictures, American -- History.
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Motion pictures.
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| SUBJECT |
Israel -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85068697
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| Author |
Denby, David.
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| LC no. |
76062494 |
| ISBN |
0394721942 (paperback) |
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