The Rhapsodes: How 1940s Critics Changed American Film Culture

The Rhapsodes: How 1940s Critics Changed American Film Culture
ISBN-10
022635220X
ISBN-13
9780226352206
Category
Performing Arts
Pages
174
Language
English
Published
2016-04-04
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Author
David Bordwell

Description

Pauline Kael, Andrew Sarris, and Roger Ebert were three of America's most revered and widely read film critics, more famous than many of the movies they wrote about. But their remarkable contributions to the burgeoning American film criticism of the 1960s and beyond were deeply influenced by four earlier critics: Otis Ferguson, James Agee, Manny Farber, and Parker Tyler. Film scholar and critic David Bordwell restores to a wider audience the work of Ferguson, Agee, Farber, and Tyler, critics he calls the 'Rhapsodes' for the passionate and deliberately offbeat nature of their vernacular prose.

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