Agee on Film: Criticism and Comment on the Movies
- ISBN-10
- 0375755292
- ISBN-13
- 9780375755293
- Category
- Film criticism
- Pages
- 465
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2000
- Author
- James Agee
Description
"In my opinion, [Agee's] column is the most remarkable regular event in American journalism today."--W. H. Auden James Agee was passionately involved with the movies throughout his life. A master of both fiction and nonfiction, he wrote about film in clean, smart prose as the reviewer for Time magazine and as a columnist for The Nation. Agee was particularly perceptive about the work of his friend John Huston and recognized the artistic merit of certain B films such as The Curse of the Cat People and other movies produced by Val Lewton.
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