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An anthology of unparalleled scope, "American Movie Critics" charts the rise of movies as art, industry, and mass entertainment. Here are the great movie critics who forged a forceful new vernacular idiom for talking about the new art, ?Otis Ferguson, James Agee, Richard Schickel, Pauline Kael, Andrew Sarris, and Molly Haskell, among them. Here too are notable American writers, including Carl Sandburg, H. L. Mencken, Susan Sontag, and John Ashbery, weighing in on a range of cinematic experiences. The volumeas narrative continues to the present with a sampling of the best of todayas reviewers, including J. Hoberman, Roger Ebert, A. O. Scott, and Manohla Dargis. This paperback edition includes additional material reflecting the impact of the Internet and DVDs on film criticism.
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Table Of Contents:
INTRODUCTION xiii
1. Pioneers: The Silent Era and the Transition to Sound
VACHEL LINDSAY
The Photoplay of Action 3
The Artistic Position of Douglas Fairbanks and The Thief of Bagdad Production 7
HUGO M脺NSTERBERG
The Function of the Photoplay 10
CARL SANDBURG
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari 18
Nanook of the North 20
A Woman of Paris 21
Manhandled 22
The Temptress 23
What Price Glory? 24
ROBERT E. SHERWOOD
The Ten Commandments 27
Greed 29
EDMUND WILSON
The New Chaplin Comedy (The Gold Rush) 31
H.L. MENCKEN
from Appendix from Moronia: Note on Technic 35
H.D.
The Passion of Joan of Arc 39
ALEXANDER BAKSHY
The "Talkies" 45
HARRY ALAN POTAMKIN
"A" in the Art of the Movie and Kino 48
Remarks on D. W. Griffith 51
GILBERT SELDES
from An Hour with the Movies and the Talkies 56
PARE LORENTZ
Anna Christie 67
Good Art, Good Propaganda 69
WILLIAM TROY
King Kong 73
The Invisible Man 74
CECILIA AGER
Parachute Jumper 76
Hallelujah I'm a Bum 77
Ladies They Talk About 77
Our Betters 78
King Kong 79
Night Flight 80
Camille 80
The Last of Mrs. Cheyney 81
Personal Property 82
Another Dawn 83
A Day at the Races 84
ANDR脡 SENNWALD
The Devil Is a Woman 85
The Future of Color 86
RUDOLF ARNHEIM
The Film Critic of Tomorrow 90
LINCOLN KIRSTEIN
Dancing in Films 96
MEYER LEVIN
The Charge of the Light Brigade 103
II. Masters and Moonlighters: The Late 1930's, World War II, and the Postwar Era
OTIS FERGUSON
It's Up to the Kiddies (Stand Up and Cheer) 110
Stars and Garters (Belle of the Nineties) 111
Artist Among the Flickers (Three Songs about Lenin) 112
Arms and Men (Lives of a Bengal Lancer) 115
Words and Music (Broadway Melody of 1936) 116
In a Dry Month (Hands across the Table) 119
Cagney: Great Guy 121
Through the Looking Glass (Stage Door) 124
Walt Disney's Grimm Reality (Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs) 126
Hitchcock in Hollywood (Foreign Correspondent) 128
For Better, For Worse (Time in the Sun) 130
Handsome Is...(High Sierra) 131
Citizen Welles 132
Welles and His Wonders: II 135
MELVIN B. TOLSON
Gone with the Wind Is More Dangerous Than Birth of a Nation 140
PAUL GOODMAN
Griffith and the Technical Innovations 145
JAMES AGEE
The Song of Bernadette 150
Annual Wrap-Up of 1944 151
A Great Film (The Story of G.I. Joe) 155
The Lost Weekend 158
Shoeshine 161
Day of Wrath 163
SIEGFRIED KRACAUER
Introduction to From Caligari to Hitler 166
ROBERT WARSHOW
The Gangster as Tragic Hero 175
A Feeling of Sad Dignity (Limelight) 180
RALPH ELLISON
The Shadow and the Act 192
MARTHA WOLFENSTEIN AND NATHAN LEITES
Got a Match? 198
III. The Golden Age of Movie Criticism: The 1950's through the 70's
BARBARA DEMING
The Reluctant War Hero (Casablanca) 209
MANNY FARBER
Underground Films 222
White Elephant Art vs. Termite Art 233
Kitchen Without Kitsch (with Patricia Patterson) 241
PARKER TYLER
Double into Quadruple Indemnity 249
Warhol's New Sex Film (Blue Movie) 257
EUGENE ARCHER
A King in New York 263
ARLENE CROCE
Pather Panchali and Aparajito 271
A Note on La Belle, La Perfectly Swell, Romance 276
JONAS MEKAS
The Creative joy of the Independent Film-Maker 280
Renoir and Plotless Cinema 281
Marilyn Monroe and the Loveless World (The Misfits) 282
On Andy Warhol's Sleep 283
Not Everything That Is Fun Is Cinema (A Hard Day's Night) 284
On Bresson and Une Femme Douce 285
STANLEY KAUFFMANN
The Misfits 286
L'Avventura 289
Lola Montes 291
ANDREW SARRIS
The Birds 297
La Guerre Est Finie 298
Falstaff and A Countess from Hong Kong 300
Science Fiction: The Forbin Project 303
Billy Wilder 306
Billy Wilder Reconsidered 307
John Wayne's Strange Legacy 311
SUSAN SONTAG
The Imagination of Disaster 316
PAULINE KAEL
Band of Outsiders 331
Funny Girl 334
Trash, Art, and the Movies 337
McCabe & Mrs. Miller 367
DWIGHT MACDONALD
8陆 371
RENATA ADLER
Cold Blood: Cheap Fiction 385
DONALD PHELPS
The Runners 389
VINCENT CANBY
Midnight Cowboy 395
The Wild Bunch 397
Easy Rider 399
Z 401
They Shoot Horses, Don't They? 402
Patton 404
Zabriskie Point 407
Is Fiddler More De Mille Than Sholem Aleichem? 409
WILLIAM S. PECHTER
These Are a Few of My Favorite Things 413
Bufluel 417
MOLLY HASKELL
The Woman's Film 426
Sophisticated Interiors 450
Melancholy Males or Movies About Men Turning 50 452
PAUL SCHRADER
Notes on Film Noir 456
JOHN SIMON
The Last Picture Show 467
Jaundice of the Soul (Chinatown) 471
BRENDAN GILL
Blue Notes 476
RICHARD CORLISS
M*A*S*H 485
JAMES BALDWIN
from The Devil Finds Work (Lady Sings the Blues) 491
PENELOPE GILLIATT
The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant 501
IV. Reconsiderations and Renegade Perspectives: The 1980's to the Present
WALTER KERR
The Keaton Quiet 507
J. HOBERMAN
Bad Movies 517
The Film Critic of Tomorrow, Today 528
STANLEY CAVELL
Cons and Pros (The Lady Eve) 538
RICHARD SCHICKEL
Blue Velvet 558
Sam Fuller: Movie Bozo 562
ARMOND WHITE
Rebirth of a Nation (Do the Right Thing) 570
Malcolm X'd Again (Malcolm X) 574
DAVID DENBY
The Real Thing 579
GEOFFREY O'BRIEN
The Italian System 591
PAUL RUDNICK (AKA LIBBY GELMAN-WAXNER)
A Boy Named Sioux (Dances with Wolves) 606
DAVID THOMSON
Cary Grant 610
Howard Hawks 613
BELL HOOKS
Cool Cynicism: Pulp Fiction 617
KENNETH TURAN
Titanic Sinks Again (Spectacularly) 622
JONATHAN ROSENBAUM
In Dreams Begin Responsibilities (Eyes Wide Shut) 626
ROGER EBERT
Trouble in Paradise 636
STUART KLAWANS
Gladiator 640
JAMES HARVEY
Imitation of Life 644
KENT JONES
Of Love and the City (In the Mood for Love) 667
JOHN ASHBERY
On Val Lewton's The Seventh Victim 673
CARRIE RICKEY
Ratpacks and Pack Males 677
GILBERTO PEREZ
Saying "Ain't" and Playing "Dixie": Rhetoric and Comedy in Judge Priest 682
A.O. SCOTT
Good and Evil Locked in Violent Showdowns (The Passion of the Christ) 699
The Most Overrated Film of the sear (Sideways) 702
MANOHLA DARGIS
High Hopes (The Royal Tenenbaums) 706
Not-So-Nice Kitty (The Cat in the Hat) 709
Once Disaster Hits, It Seems Never To End (A History of Violence) 711
STEPHANIE ZACHAREK
United 93 714
NATHAN LEE
To Catch a Predator (Zodiac) 719
DAVID BORDWELL
New Media and Old Storytelling 724
SOURCES AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 731
INDEX 737
INTRODUCTION xiii
1. Pioneers: The Silent Era and the Transition to Sound
VACHEL LINDSAY
The Photoplay of Action 3
The Artistic Position of Douglas Fairbanks and The Thief of Bagdad Production 7
HUGO M脺NSTERBERG
The Function of the Photoplay 10
CARL SANDBURG
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari 18
Nanook of the North 20
A Woman of Paris 21
Manhandled 22
The Temptress 23
What Price Glory? 24
ROBERT E. SHERWOOD
The Ten Commandments 27
Greed 29
EDMUND WILSON
The New Chaplin Comedy (The Gold Rush) 31
H.L. MENCKEN
from Appendix from Moronia: Note on Technic 35
H.D.
The Passion of Joan of Arc 39
ALEXANDER BAKSHY
The "Talkies" 45
HARRY ALAN POTAMKIN
"A" in the Art of the Movie and Kino 48
Remarks on D. W. Griffith 51
GILBERT SELDES
from An Hour with the Movies and the Talkies 56
PARE LORENTZ
Anna Christie 67
Good Art, Good Propaganda 69
WILLIAM TROY
King Kong 73
The Invisible Man 74
CECILIA AGER
Parachute Jumper 76
Hallelujah I'm a Bum 77
Ladies They Talk About 77
Our Betters 78
King Kong 79
Night Flight 80
Camille 80
The Last of Mrs. Cheyney 81
Personal Property 82
Another Dawn 83
A Day at the Races 84
ANDR脡 SENNWALD
The Devil Is a Woman 85
The Future of Color 86
RUDOLF ARNHEIM
The Film Critic of Tomorrow 90
LINCOLN KIRSTEIN
Dancing in Films 96
MEYER LEVIN
The Charge of the Light Brigade 103
II. Masters and Moonlighters: The Late 1930's, World War II, and the Postwar Era
OTIS FERGUSON
It's Up to the Kiddies (Stand Up and Cheer) 110
Stars and Garters (Belle of the Nineties) 111
Artist Among the Flickers (Three Songs about Lenin) 112
Arms and Men (Lives of a Bengal Lancer) 115
Words and Music (Broadway Melody of 1936) 116
In a Dry Month (Hands across the Table) 119
Cagney: Great Guy 121
Through the Looking Glass (Stage Door) 124
Walt Disney's Grimm Reality (Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs) 126
Hitchcock in Hollywood (Foreign Correspondent) 128
For Better, For Worse (Time in the Sun) 130
Handsome Is...(High Sierra) 131
Citizen Welles 132
Welles and His Wonders: II 135
MELVIN B. TOLSON
Gone with the Wind Is More Dangerous Than Birth of a Nation 140
PAUL GOODMAN
Griffith and the Technical Innovations 145
JAMES AGEE
The Song of Bernadette 150
Annual Wrap-Up of 1944 151
A Great Film (The Story of G.I. Joe) 155
The Lost Weekend 158
Shoeshine 161
Day of Wrath 163
SIEGFRIED KRACAUER
Introduction to From Caligari to Hitler 166
ROBERT WARSHOW
The Gangster as Tragic Hero 175
A Feeling of Sad Dignity (Limelight) 180
RALPH ELLISON
The Shadow and the Act 192
MARTHA WOLFENSTEIN AND NATHAN LEITES
Got a Match? 198
III. The Golden Age of Movie Criticism: The 1950's through the 70's
BARBARA DEMING
The Reluctant War Hero (Casablanca) 209
MANNY FARBER
Underground Films 222
White Elephant Art vs. Termite Art 233
Kitchen Without Kitsch (with Patricia Patterson) 241
PARKER TYLER
Double into Quadruple Indemnity 249
Warhol's New Sex Film (Blue Movie) 257
EUGENE ARCHER
A King in New York 263
ARLENE CROCE
Pather Panchali and Aparajito 271
A Note on La Belle, La Perfectly Swell, Romance 276
JONAS MEKAS
The Creative joy of the Independent Film-Maker 280
Renoir and Plotless Cinema 281
Marilyn Monroe and the Loveless World (The Misfits) 282
On Andy Warhol's Sleep 283
Not Everything That Is Fun Is Cinema (A Hard Day's Night) 284
On Bresson and Une Femme Douce 285
STANLEY KAUFFMANN
The Misfits 286
L'Avventura 289
Lola Montes 291
ANDREW SARRIS
The Birds 297
La Guerre Est Finie 298
Falstaff and A Countess from Hong Kong 300
Science Fiction: The Forbin Project 303
Billy Wilder 306
Billy Wilder Reconsidered 307
John Wayne's Strange Legacy 311
SUSAN SONTAG
The Imagination of Disaster 316
PAULINE KAEL
Band of Outsiders 331
Funny Girl 334
Trash, Art, and the Movies 337
McCabe & Mrs. Miller 367
DWIGHT MACDONALD
8陆 371
RENATA ADLER
Cold Blood: Cheap Fiction 385
DONALD PHELPS
The Runners 389
VINCENT CANBY
Midnight Cowboy 395
The Wild Bunch 397
Easy Rider 399
Z 401
They Shoot Horses, Don't They? 402
Patton 404
Zabriskie Point 407
Is Fiddler More De Mille Than Sholem Aleichem? 409
WILLIAM S. PECHTER
These Are a Few of My Favorite Things 413
Bufluel 417
MOLLY HASKELL
The Woman's Film 426
Sophisticated Interiors 450
Melancholy Males or Movies About Men Turning 50 452
PAUL SCHRADER
Notes on Film Noir 456
JOHN SIMON
The Last Picture Show 467
Jaundice of the Soul (Chinatown) 471
BRENDAN GILL
Blue Notes 476
RICHARD CORLISS
M*A*S*H 485
JAMES BALDWIN
from The Devil Finds Work (Lady Sings the Blues) 491
PENELOPE GILLIATT
The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant 501
IV. Reconsiderations and Renegade Perspectives: The 1980's to the Present
WALTER KERR
The Keaton Quiet 507
J. HOBERMAN
Bad Movies 517
The Film Critic of Tomorrow, Today 528
STANLEY CAVELL
Cons and Pros (The Lady Eve) 538
RICHARD SCHICKEL
Blue Velvet 558
Sam Fuller: Movie Bozo 562
ARMOND WHITE
Rebirth of a Nation (Do the Right Thing) 570
Malcolm X'd Again (Malcolm X) 574
DAVID DENBY
The Real Thing 579
GEOFFREY O'BRIEN
The Italian System 591
PAUL RUDNICK (AKA LIBBY GELMAN-WAXNER)
A Boy Named Sioux (Dances with Wolves) 606
DAVID THOMSON
Cary Grant 610
Howard Hawks 613
BELL HOOKS
Cool Cynicism: Pulp Fiction 617
KENNETH TURAN
Titanic Sinks Again (Spectacularly) 622
JONATHAN ROSENBAUM
In Dreams Begin Responsibilities (Eyes Wide Shut) 626
ROGER EBERT
Trouble in Paradise 636
STUART KLAWANS
Gladiator 640
JAMES HARVEY
Imitation of Life 644
KENT JONES
Of Love and the City (In the Mood for Love) 667
JOHN ASHBERY
On Val Lewton's The Seventh Victim 673
CARRIE RICKEY
Ratpacks and Pack Males 677
GILBERTO PEREZ
Saying "Ain't" and Playing "Dixie": Rhetoric and Comedy in Judge Priest 682
A.O. SCOTT
Good and Evil Locked in Violent Showdowns (The Passion of the Christ) 699
The Most Overrated Film of the sear (Sideways) 702
MANOHLA DARGIS
High Hopes (The Royal Tenenbaums) 706
Not-So-Nice Kitty (The Cat in the Hat) 709
Once Disaster Hits, It Seems Never To End (A History of Violence) 711
STEPHANIE ZACHAREK
United 93 714
NATHAN LEE
To Catch a Predator (Zodiac) 719
DAVID BORDWELL
New Media and Old Storytelling 724
SOURCES AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 731
INDEX 737
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