Placing movies : the practice of film criticism /

Main Author: Rosenbaum, Jonathan.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1995.
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Table of Contents:
  • Theory and practice : the criticism of Jean-Luc Godard
  • 'Film comment' journals, 1974-1977 : excerpts
  • Edinburgh encounters : a consumers/producers guide-in-progress to four recent avant-garde films
  • Barthes & film : 12 suggestions
  • A bluffer's guide to Bèla Tarr
  • They drive by night : the criticism of Manny Farber
  • Ozu's 'Good morning'
  • Aspects of 'Anatahan'
  • Gold diggers of 1953 : Howard Hawk's 'Gentlemen prefer blondes'
  • 'Gertrud' as nonnarrative : the desire for the image
  • 'The Manchurian candidate'
  • 'Othello' goes Hollywood
  • Work and play in the house of fiction : on Jacques Rivette
  • The tyranny of sensitivity
  • Love films : a Cassavetes retrospective
  • The death of Hulot
  • Orson Welles's essay films and documentary fictions : a two-part speculation
  • The importance of being perverse : Godard's 'King Lear'
  • Alain Resnais and 'Mélo'
  • Jerry Lewis's 'Hardly working'
  • 'Doomed love' : the masterpiece you missed
  • 'Raiders of the lost ark'
  • Mapping the territory of Râúl Ruiz
  • Notes toward the devaluation of Woody Allen
  • Crass consciousness : 'Barton fink'
  • Bird watching
  • Jean Vigo's secret : L'atalante
  • Guilty by omission
  • His master's vice : Fuller's 'White dog'
  • Government lies : 'The Panama deception' and 'Deep cover'
  • A cinema of uncertainty : films by Michelangelo Antonioni.