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The Age of Movies: Selected Writings of Pauline Kael

Author : Pauline Kael
Publisher : Library of America
ISBN 13 : 1598531719
Total Pages : 750 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (985 download)

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Download or read book The Age of Movies: Selected Writings of Pauline Kael written by Pauline Kael and published by Library of America. This book was released on 2011-10-27 with total page 750 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Film criticism is exciting just because there is no formula to apply," Pauline Kael once observed, "just because you must use everything you are and everything you know." Between 1968 and 1991, as regular film reviewer for The New Yorker, Kael used those formidable tools to shape the tastes of a generation, enthralling readers with her gift for capturing, with force and fluency, the essence of an actor's gesture or the full implication of a cinematic image. Kael called movies "the most total and encompassing art form we have," and she made her reviews a platform for considering both film and the worlds it engages, crafting in the process a prose style of extraordinary wit, precision, and improvisatory grace. To read The Age of Movies, the first new selection in more than a generation, is to be swept up into an endlessly revealing and entertaining dialogue with Kael at her witty, exhilarating, and opinionated best. Her ability to evoke the essence of a great artist-an Orson Welles or a Robert Altman-or to celebrate the way even seeming trash could tap deeply into our emotions was matched by her unwavering eye for the scams and self-deceptions of a corrupt movie industry. Here in this career spanning collection are her appraisals of the films that defined an era-among them Breathless, Bonnie and Clyde, The Leopard, The Godfather, Last Tango in Paris, Nashville-along with many others, some awaiting rediscovery, all providing the occasion for masterpieces of observation and insight, alive on every page.

I Lost it at the Movies

Author : Pauline Kael
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (83 download)

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Download or read book I Lost it at the Movies written by Pauline Kael and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Pauline Kael

Author : Brian Kellow
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0143122207
Total Pages : 441 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (431 download)

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Download or read book Pauline Kael written by Brian Kellow and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-10-30 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A smart and eminently readable examination of the life and career of one of the twentieth century’s most influential movie critics.”—Los Angeles Times “Engrossing and thoroughly researched.”—Entertainment Weekly • A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of 2011 • The first major biography of the most influential, powerful, and controversial film critic of the twentieth century Pauline Kael was, in the words of Entertainment Weekly's movie reviewer Owen Gleiberman, "the Elvis or Beatles of film criticism." During her tenure at The New Yorker from 1968 to 1991, she was the most widely read and, often enough, the most provocative critic in America. In this first full-length biography of the legend who changed the face of film criticism, acclaimed author Brian Kellow (author of Can I Go Now?: The Life of Sue Mengers, Hollywood's First Superagent) gives readers a richly detailed view of Kael's remarkable life—from her youth in rural California to her early struggles to establish her writing career to her peak years at The New Yorker.

Movie Love

Author : Pauline Kael
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780714529530
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (295 download)

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Download or read book Movie Love written by Pauline Kael and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Deeper Into Movies

Author : Pauline Kael
Publisher : Marion Boyars Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780714509419
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book Deeper Into Movies written by Pauline Kael and published by Marion Boyars Publishers. This book was released on 1975-01-01 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

5001 Nights at the Movies

Author : Pauline Kael
Publisher : Holt Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 1250033578
Total Pages : 959 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book 5001 Nights at the Movies written by Pauline Kael and published by Holt Paperbacks. This book was released on 2011-08-02 with total page 959 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The intelligent person's guide to the movies, with more than 2,800 reviews Look up a movie in this guide, and chances are you'll find yourself reading on about the next movie and the next. Pauline Kael's reviews aren't just provocative---they're addictive. These brief, informative reviews, written for the "Goings On About Town" section of The New Yorker, provide an immense range of listings---a masterly critical history of American and foreign film. This is probably the only movie guide you'll want to read for the sheer pleasure of it.

Weimar Cinema

Author : Noah William Isenberg
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231130554
Total Pages : 373 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (311 download)

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Download or read book Weimar Cinema written by Noah William Isenberg and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this comprehensive companion to Weimar cinema, chapters address the technological advancements of each film, their production and place within the larger history of German cinema, the style of the director, the actors and the rise of the German star, and the critical reception of the film.

Reeling

Author : Pauline Kael
Publisher : Marion Boyars Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780714525822
Total Pages : 497 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (258 download)

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Download or read book Reeling written by Pauline Kael and published by Marion Boyars Publishers. This book was released on 1977 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Movie Freak

Author : Owen Gleiberman
Publisher : Hachette Books
ISBN 13 : 0316382949
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (163 download)

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Download or read book Movie Freak written by Owen Gleiberman and published by Hachette Books. This book was released on 2016-02-23 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Entertainment Weekly's controversial critic of more than two decades looks back at a life told through the films he loved and loathed. Owen Gleiberman has spent his life watching movies-first at the drive-in, where his parents took him to see wildly inappropriate adult fare like Rosemary's Baby when he was a wide-eyed 9 year old, then as a possessed cinemaniac who became a film critic right out of college. In Movie Freak, his enthrallingly candid, funny, and eye-opening memoir, Gleiberman captures what it's like to live life through the movies, existing in thrall to a virtual reality that becomes, over time, more real than reality itself. Gleiberman paints a bittersweet portrait of his complicated and ultimately doomed friendship with Pauline Kael, the legendary New Yorker film critic who was his mentor and muse. He also offers an unprecedented inside look at what the experience of being a critic is really all about, detailing his stint at The Boston Phoenix and then, starting in 1990, at EW, where he becomes a voice of obsession battling-to a fault-to cling to his independence. Gleiberman explores the movies that shaped him, from the films that first made him want to be a critic (Nashville and Carrie), to what he hails as the sublime dark trilogy of the 1980s (Blue Velvet, Sid and Nancy, and Manhunter), to the scruffy humanity of Dazed and Confused, to the brilliant madness of Natural Born Killers, to the transcendence of Breaking the Waves, to the pop rapture of Moulin Rouge! He explores his partnership with Lisa Schwarzbaum and his friendships and encounters with such figures as Oliver Stone, Russell Crowe, Richard Linklater, and Ben Affleck. He also writes with confessional intimacy about his romantic relationships and how they echoed the behavior of his bullying, philandering father. And he talks about what film criticism is becoming in the digital age: a cacophony of voices threatened by an insidious new kind of groupthink. Ultimately, Movie Freak is about the primal pleasure of film and the enigmatic dynamic between critic and screen. For Gleiberman, the moving image has a talismanic power, but it also represents a kind of sweet sickness, a magnificent obsession that both consumes and propels him.

Taking it All in

Author : Pauline Kael
Publisher : Marion Boyars Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780714528410
Total Pages : 527 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (284 download)

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Download or read book Taking it All in written by Pauline Kael and published by Marion Boyars Publishers. This book was released on 1986-01-01 with total page 527 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All material in this book originally appeared in The New Yorker Includes index.

Kiss Kiss Bang Bang

Author : Pauline Kael
Publisher : Marion Boyars Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780714506586
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (65 download)

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Download or read book Kiss Kiss Bang Bang written by Pauline Kael and published by Marion Boyars Publishers. This book was released on 1970-01-01 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Film Criticism in the Digital Age

Author : Mattias Frey
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 0813570743
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (135 download)

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Download or read book Film Criticism in the Digital Age written by Mattias Frey and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2015-04-20 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past decade, as digital media has expanded and print outlets have declined, pundits have bemoaned a “crisis of criticism” and mourned the “death of the critic.” Now that well-paying jobs in film criticism have largely evaporated, while blogs, message boards, and social media have given new meaning to the saying that “everyone’s a critic,” urgent questions have emerged about the status and purpose of film criticism in the twenty-first century. In Film Criticism in the Digital Age, ten scholars from across the globe come together to consider whether we are witnessing the extinction of serious film criticism or seeing the start of its rebirth in a new form. Drawing from a wide variety of case studies and methodological perspectives, the book’s contributors find many signs of the film critic’s declining clout, but they also locate surprising examples of how critics—whether moonlighting bloggers or salaried writers—have been able to intervene in current popular discourse about arts and culture. In addition to collecting a plethora of scholarly perspectives, Film Criticism in the Digital Age includes statements from key bloggers and print critics, like Armond White and Nick James. Neither an uncritical celebration of digital culture nor a jeremiad against it, this anthology offers a comprehensive look at the challenges and possibilities that the Internet brings to the evaluation, promotion, and explanation of artistic works.

James Agee: Film Writing and Selected Journalism (LOA #160)

Author : James Agee
Publisher : Library of America James Agee
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 780 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book James Agee: Film Writing and Selected Journalism (LOA #160) written by James Agee and published by Library of America James Agee. This book was released on 2005-09-22 with total page 780 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: [The author] had a passion for art in all its aspects, but it was the new art of the movies that was his greatest inspiration as a critic. [This book] has long been recognized as the single most influential American book about movies. Witty, probing, lacerating his moral criticisms, eloquent in his admiration of filmmakers from Charlie Chaplin to John Huston, [the author] is a critic who engages the reader no matter what subject he is writing about.-Back cover.

Film: A Very Short Introduction

Author : Michael Wood
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192803530
Total Pages : 153 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (928 download)

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Download or read book Film: A Very Short Introduction written by Michael Wood and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-01-26 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers a wealth of insight into the paradoxical nature of film, considering its role and impact on society in the 20th century as well as its future in the digital age. Original.

Los Angeles Stories

Author : Ry Cooder
Publisher : City Lights Books
ISBN 13 : 0872865193
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (728 download)

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Download or read book Los Angeles Stories written by Ry Cooder and published by City Lights Books. This book was released on 2011-10 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Available Now: World-famous musician Ry Cooder publishes his first collection of stories.

Afterglow

Author : Pauline Kael
Publisher : Da Capo Press, Incorporated
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Afterglow written by Pauline Kael and published by Da Capo Press, Incorporated. This book was released on 2002-09-04 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The movie critic talks about her life, her career at the New Yorker, and the present state of the cinema and popular culture.

Sin in Soft Focus

Author : Mark A. Vieira
Publisher : Harry N. Abrams
ISBN 13 : 9780810982284
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (822 download)

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Download or read book Sin in Soft Focus written by Mark A. Vieira and published by Harry N. Abrams. This book was released on 2003-03-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the spring of 1934, Hollywood faced what the Los Angeles Times called "the most serious crisis of its history." The film capital was under siege by censorship advocates who launched a boycott, demanding that the film industry enforce the Production Code it had adopted in 1930. For nearly five years, defiant producers had cited artistic freedom and flouted the Code, which forbade vulgarity, profanity, nudity, excessive violence, illegal drugs, adultery, "sex perversion," "white slavery," racial mingling, "lustful kissing," and suggestive dancing. In July 1934, the controversial films were outlawed. Today they are called "pre-Code." Sin in Soft Focus showcases a scintillating era in film history and tells how filmmakers sidestepped the Code. Mark A. Vieira draws on extensive research, interviews, and correspondence in the Production Code Administration files to tell the engaging, suspenseful, and often humorous story of the struggle between Hollywood and its reformers, weaving history, politics, and film into a full-blooded narrative. Illustrated with 275 film stills, many of them rare, the book captures the stunning visual artistry of the era.