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Conversations with Stanley Kauffmann

Author : Stanley Kauffmann
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 9781578065660
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (656 download)

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Download or read book Conversations with Stanley Kauffmann written by Stanley Kauffmann and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2003 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of interviews with Stanley Kauffmann (b. 1916) provides a virtual history of the journalistic practice of criticism in twentieth-century America. His creative life spans seven decades, and since 1958, he has been a film and drama critic for the New Republic, the New York Times, and Saturday Review. He also has been an actor, stage manager, playwright, novelist, and editor. Along with Dwight Macdonald, Andrew Sarris, and John Simon, he is one of the potent, influential critics included in the New York school of twentieth-century American criticism. The Los Angeles Times called him "the Dean Swift of our country's criticism." Susan Sontag proclaimed him "one of our national treasures." In this collection of interviews conducted by Charlie Rose, Dick Cavett, and others he speaks both of the role of theater and film criticism in American culture and of the crisis he perceives within it. With wit and erudition Kauffmann discusses many subjects-film directors who emerged during his long tenure at the New Republic (e.g., Martin Scorsese and Federico Fellini), actors who performed on both stage and screen, novels and their film adaptations, and the fractious relationship between Hollywood and the independent film movement. The precision and concise phrasing of Kauffmann's writing chime also in his brilliant conversations as he speaks of sex, taste, realism, the rise of film festival culture, and government subsidy of the arts. The volume ends with a conversation from 1998 in celebration of Kauffmann's forty-year tenure at the New Republic, where he continues to publish film reviews every week. The collection reveals this critic's sense of cultural mission by showing how Kauffmann applies to drama and film the same high standards he applies to fiction, poetry, music, and theater. Conversations with Stanley Kauffmann reveals that this love of the arts is expressed in his finely honed gift for cogent, witty, wise commentary. Bert Cardullo, a professor of theater and drama at the University of Michigan, has written and edited several books on film and theater and has been published in the Hudson Review, the New Republic, Literature / Film Quarterly, South Atlantic Quarterly, and other publications.

Film Critic Talks

Author : Bert Cardullo
Publisher : Vellum
ISBN 13 : 9780988637658
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (376 download)

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Download or read book Film Critic Talks written by Bert Cardullo and published by Vellum. This book was released on 2013 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of interviews provides a virtual history of the journalistic practice of criticism in contemporary America. Susan Sontag proclaimed Stanley Kauffmann "one of our national treasures." In this collection of interviews conducted by Bert Cardullo, himself a film critic, Stanley Kauffmann speaks both of the role of theater and film criticism in American culture and of the crisis he perceives within it-the culture as well as the criticism. With style and erudition Kauffmann discusses many subjects in this book: film directors who emerged during his long tenure at The New Republic (e.g., Martin Scorsese and Federico Fellini), actors who performed on both stage and screen (e.g., Paul Newman and Robert Duvall), novels and their film adaptations, and the fractious relationship between Hollywood and the independent film movement. The precision, wit, and wisdom of Kauffmann's writing chime in his brilliant conversations as he speaks of sex, taste, and realism in the cinema, as well as the rise of film festival culture and government subsidy of the arts. Film Critic Talks reveals Kauffmann's sense of cultural mission-and love of all the arts-by showing how this critic applies to drama and film the same high standards he applies to fiction, poetry, music, and theater. The volume ends with a conversation from 2012 in celebration of Kauffmann's more than fifty-year tenure at The New Republic, where, at age ninety-seven, he continues to publish film reviews every week.

Albums of a Life

Author : Stanley Kauffmann
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Albums of a Life written by Stanley Kauffmann and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “In an age of narrow self interest (both kinds), with memoirs falling from the press like autumn leaves in a high wind, Stanley Kauffmann’s Albums of a Life is virtually unique. As the title suggests, his purpose in writing about himself, his ways and means over a long lifetime, has no higher or lower purpose than to collect memories that fall together around a person, place or subject. As such he is not overtly telling us his inside story or delivering his career, whether for the public record or the annals of gossip, or bending his experience to make some large political or cultural point. Instead of the typically heated prose of the private memoir or the typically flat style of the public one, his tone is crisply genial, warmly objective, the prose of a writer who does not try to dig into or inflate or argue his experience but to commemorate it in an exact, felt, uncoercive way. Like an album of carefully selected photographs that span a lifetime, they are unassuming and they matter. Open any of these discrete, ad hoc remembrances and you touch a rich life.”—from the Introduction by Ted Solotaroff

Albums of a Life

Author : Stanley Kauffmann
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781931357531
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (575 download)

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Download or read book Albums of a Life written by Stanley Kauffmann and published by . This book was released on 2007-10 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In an age of narrow self interest (both kinds), with memoirs falling from the press like autumn leaves in a high wind, Stanley Kauffmann's Albums of a Life is virtually unique. As the title suggests, his purpose in writing about himself, his ways and means over a long lifetime, has no higher or lower purpose than to collect memories that fall together around a person, place or subject. As such he is not overtly telling us his inside story or delivering his career, whether for the public record or the annals of gossip, or bending his experience to make some large political or cultural point. Instead of the typically heated prose of the private memoir or the typically flat style of the public one, his tone is crisply genial, warmly objective, the prose of a writer who does not try to dig into or inflate or argue his experience but to commemorate it in an exact, felt, uncoercive way. Like an album of carefully selected photographs that span a lifetime, they are unassuming and they matter. Open any of these discrete, ad hoc remembrances and you touch a rich life."--from the Introduction by Ted Solotaroff

Albums of a Life

Author : Stanley Kauffmann
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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The Wild Bunch

Author : W. K. Stratton
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 163286214X
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (328 download)

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Download or read book The Wild Bunch written by W. K. Stratton and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2019-02-12 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the fiftieth anniversary of the film, W.K. Stratton's definitive history of the making of The Wild Bunch, named one of the greatest Westerns of all time by the American Film Institute. Sam Peckinpah's film The Wild Bunch is the story of a gang of outlaws who are one big steal from retirement. When their attempted train robbery goes awry, the gang flees to Mexico and falls in with a brutal general of the Mexican Revolution, who offers them the job of a lifetime. Conceived by a stuntman, directed by a blacklisted director, and shot in the sand and heat of the Mexican desert, the movie seemed doomed. Instead, it became an instant classic with a dark, violent take on the Western movie tradition. In The Wild Bunch, W.K. Stratton tells the fascinating history of the making of the movie and documents for the first time the extraordinary contribution of Mexican and Mexican-American actors and crew members to the movie's success. Shaped by infamous director Sam Peckinpah, and starring such visionary actors as William Holden, Ernest Borgnine, Edmond O'Brien, and Robert Ryan, the movie was also the product of an industry and a nation in transition. By 1968, when the movie was filmed, the studio system that had perpetuated the myth of the valiant cowboy in movies like The Searchers had collapsed, and America was riled by Vietnam, race riots, and assassinations. The Wild Bunch spoke to America in its moment, when war and senseless violence seemed to define both domestic and international life. The Wild Bunch is an authoritative history of the making of a movie and the era behind it.

Interrupting My Train of Thought

Author : Phil Dellio
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1312491973
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (124 download)

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Download or read book Interrupting My Train of Thought written by Phil Dellio and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-09-06 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interrupting My Train of Thought collects thirty years of writing about pop music, movies, baseball, teaching, and a couple of presidential elections. It exists somewhere close to the intersection between criticism, autobiography, and rambling.

Rainbow Jews

Author : Jonathan C. Friedman
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 9780739114483
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (144 download)

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Download or read book Rainbow Jews written by Jonathan C. Friedman and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rainbow Jews deals with the intersection of gay and Jewish identity in American and Israeli film and theater, from the 1960s to the present. Its main area of interest is the extent to which Jewish creative voices in the performing arts have constructed multidimensional images of, and a welcoming public space for, the gay, lesbian, and transgendered community as a whole. Through a close reading of the texts of numerous American and Israeli plays and films (some famous, but mostly lesser known), the author evaluates some of the key conventions and tropes that have been employed to construct, critique, and reflect the social reality of the connection between Jewishness and gay identity in the United States and Israel. Secondarily, the author explores ways in which gay-Jewish playwrights and filmmakers have assisted the re-evaluation of sexual norms within Judaism over the past three decades, inspiring and reinforcing measures across the spectrum of belief geared towards integrating Jewish members of the GLBT community into the overall Jewish historical narrative.

Brian Friel in Conversation

Author : Brian Friel
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 9780472067107
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (671 download)

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Download or read book Brian Friel in Conversation written by Brian Friel and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reflections by the author of Dancing at Lughnasa on Irish writers, the theater, nationalism, Catholicism, and his childhood

Persistence of Vision

Author : Dr Robert Cardullo
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781681140070
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Persistence of Vision written by Dr Robert Cardullo and published by . This book was released on 2015-01-02 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 21st-Century Film Criticism of Stanley Kauffmann is a collection of film criticism by the late Stanley Kauffmann (1916-2013). Kauffmann's creative life spanned seven decades: starting in 1958 and continuing until 2013, he was a film and drama critic for The New Republic, The New York Times, and Saturday Review, among other publications. Along with Andrew Sarris, Pauline Kael, and John Simon, Kauffmann was one of the potent, influential critics included in the New York school of twentieth-century American criticism. In Persistence of Vision, Kauffmann discusses films from such countries as France, England, Mexico, Israel, Sweden, Austria, Netherlands, Argentina, Finland, Norway, Italy, Iran, Japan, Belgium, South Korea, China, Lebanon, Russia, Ireland, India, Greece, Chile, Romania, Turkey, Hungary, and the United States. Among the films reviewed are Michael Haneke's White Ribbon; Steven Spielberg's War of the Worlds; the Dardenne brothers' Silence of Lorna; Ron Howard's Da Vinci Code; Woody Allen's Match Point; Barbet Schroeder's Our Lady of the Assassins; Nuri Bilge Ceylan's Once Upon a Time in Anatolia; and Zhang Yimou's Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles. Also included are several reconsiderations of classic films (A Hard Day's Night and The Hired Hand, among others); remembrances of late, distinguished actors such as Wendy Hiller and Philippe Noiret; and reviews of important books like Conversations with the Great Moviemakers of Hollywood's Golden Age, by George Stevens, Jr., and On the Nature, Purpose, and Practice of the Movie Business, by David Mamet. The precision, wit, style, and wisdom of Kauffmann's writing chime in Persistence of Vision, as, once again, he reveals his sense of cultural mission-and love of all the arts-by applying to film the same high standards he applied during his long career to fiction, poetry, music, and theater.

Made Men

Author : Glenn Kenny
Publisher : Harlequin
ISBN 13 : 1488059136
Total Pages : 431 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book Made Men written by Glenn Kenny and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2020-09-15 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revealing look at the making of Martin Scorsese’s iconic mob movie and its enduring legacy, featuring interviews with its legendary cast. When Goodfellas first hit the theatres in 1990, a classic was born. Few could anticipate the unparalleled influence it would have on pop culture, one that would inspire future filmmakers and redefine the gangster picture as we know it today. From the rush of grotesque violence in the opening scene to the iconic hilarity of Joe Pesci’s endlessly quoted “Funny how?” shtick, it’s little wonder the film is widely regarded as a mainstay in contemporary cinema. In the first ever behind-the-scenes story of Goodfellas, film critic Glenn Kenny chronicles the making and afterlife of the film that introduced the real modern gangster. Featuring interviews with the film’s major players, including Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro, Made Men shines a light on the lives and stories wrapped up in the Goodfellas universe, and why its enduring legacy has such a hold on American culture. A Library Journal Best Book of the Year A Sight and Sound Best Film Book of 2020

Conversations with Clint

Author : Kevin Avery
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 144116586X
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)

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Download or read book Conversations with Clint written by Kevin Avery and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2011-10-06 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long considered lost, these extensive interviews between legendary Rolling Stone journalist Paul Nelson and Clint Eastwood were discovered after Nelson's death in 2006. Editor: Kevin Avery's writing has appeared in publications as diverse as Mississippi Review, Penthouse, Weber Studies, and Salt Lake magazine. He lives in Brooklyn, New York, with his wife and stepdaughter. His first book, Everything Is an Afterthought: The Life and Writings of Paul Nelson, is published by Fantagraphics Books. Foreword: Jonathan Lethem is one of the most acclaimed American novelists of his generation. His books include Motherless Brooklyn, The Fortress of Solitude, and Chronic City. His essays about James Brown and Bob Dylan have appeared in Rolling Stone. He lives in Claremont, California.

The Complete History of American Film Criticism

Author : Jerry Roberts
Publisher : Santa Monica Press
ISBN 13 : 1595809228
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (958 download)

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Download or read book The Complete History of American Film Criticism written by Jerry Roberts and published by Santa Monica Press. This book was released on 2010-02-19 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Complete History of American Film Criticism is a chronicle of the lives and work of the most influential film critics of the past 100 years. From the first movie review in the New York Times in 1896 through the Silent Era, the pre- and postwar years, the Film Generation of the 1960s, the Golden Age of the 1970s, and into the 21st century, critics have educated generations of discriminating moviegoers on the differences between good films and bad. They call attention to great directors, cinematographers, production designers, screenwriters, and actors, and shed light on their artistic visions and storytelling sensibilities. People interested in what the great film critics had to say have usually been shortchanged as to their backgrounds, and just why they are qualified to sit in judgment. Using mini-biographies, placed within a chronological framework, The Complete History of American Film Criticism is the biography of a profession whose cultural impact has left an indelible mark on the 20th century’s most significant art form.

Culture, History, and the Reception of Tennessee Williams in China

Author : Shouhua Qi
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031169344
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (311 download)

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Download or read book Culture, History, and the Reception of Tennessee Williams in China written by Shouhua Qi and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-10-30 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first comprehensive study of the reception of Tennessee Williams in China, from rejection and/or misgivings to cautious curiosity and to full-throated acceptance, in the context of profound changes in China’s socioeconomic and cultural life and mores since the end of the Cultural Revolution. It fills a conspicuous gap in scholarship in the reception of one of the greatest American playwrights and joins book-length studies of Chinese reception of Shakespeare, Ibsen, O’Neill, Brecht, and other important Western playwrights whose works have been eagerly embraced and appropriated and have had catalytic impact on modern Chinese cultural life.

Free Admissions

Author : Jonathan Kalb
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9780879101695
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Free Admissions written by Jonathan Kalb and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 1993 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kalb brings his wit, intelligence and critical discipline to bear equally on revivals of classics as on the work of current innovators.

Conversations with Sam Shepard

Author : Jackson R. Bryer
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1496837118
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (968 download)

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Download or read book Conversations with Sam Shepard written by Jackson R. Bryer and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2021-09-30 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A prolific playwright, Sam Shepard (1943–2017) wrote fifty-six produced plays, for which he won many awards, including a Pulitzer Prize. He was also a compelling, Oscar-nominated film actor, appearing in scores of films. Shepard also published eight books of prose and poetry and was a director (directing the premiere productions of ten of his plays as well as two films); a musician (a drummer in three rock bands); a horseman; and a plain-spoken intellectual. The famously private Shepard gave a significant number of interviews over the course of his public life, and the interviewers who respected his boundaries found him to be generous with his time and forthcoming on a wide range of topics. The selected interviews in Conversations with Sam Shepard begin in 1969 when Shepard, already a multiple Obie winner, was twenty-six and end in 2016, eighteen months before his death from complications of ALS at age seventy-three. In the interim, the voice, the writer, and the man evolved, but there are themes that echo throughout these conversations: the indelibility of family; his respect for stage acting versus what he saw as far easier film acting; and the importance of music to his work. He also speaks candidly of his youth in California, his early days as a playwright in New York City, his professionally formative time in London, his interests and influences, the mythology of the American Dream, his own plays, and more. In Conversations with Sam Shepard, the playwright reveals himself in his own words.

Conversations with Directors

Author : Elsie M. Walker
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 9780810861220
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (612 download)

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Download or read book Conversations with Directors written by Elsie M. Walker and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Founded in 1973, the journal Literature/Film Quarterly has featured interviews with some of the most prominent and influential filmmakers from around the world. In Conversations with Directors, the journal's coeditors have assembled an exciting collection of interviews spanning 35 years. Interviewees include directors like Robert Wise, Billy Wilder, Frank Capra, Federico Fellini, William Friedkin, and Robert Altman. Organized chronologically, each interview is preceded by a short introduction that establishes a contemporary context, along with providing the reader with a clear sense of the interview's primary concerns, usefully illuminating the many fascinating, and sometimes surprising, points of connection and difference between the directors.