Awake in the dark : an anthology of American film criticism, 1915 to the present/
Denby, David , 1977.
Awake in the dark : an anthology of American film criticism, 1915 to the present/ edited by David Denby. - New York : Vintage Book. 1977. - xxii, 391 pages : 21 cm.
1. In defense of a popular new art form: Thirty differences between the photoplays and the stage (1915) / Vachel Lindsay --
The Keystone the builders rejected (1923) / Gilbert Seldes --
Style and medium in the motion pictures (1934; revised 1947) / Erwin Panofsky --
Life goes to the pictures (1940) / Otis Ferguson --
David Wark Griffith (1948) / James Agee --
Underground films (1957) / Manny Farber --
Bonnie and Clyde (1967) --
2. Film as high art: The passion of Jeanne d'Arc (1929) / Harry Alan Potamkin --
M (1933) / William Troy --
La notte (1962) / Stanley Kauffmann --
8 1/2: Fellini's obvious masterpiece (1964) / Dwight Macdonald --
The passion of Anna (1970) --
3. Critical method: Preface to The immediate experience (1954) / Robert Warshow --
Circles and squares: joys and Sarris (1963) / Pauline Kael --
A critical credo (1967) / John Simon --
Toward a theory of film history -introduction to The American cinema (1968) / Andrew Sarris --
State of siege (1973) / Andrew Sarris --
Notes on a screenwriter's theory, 1973 -introduction to Talking pictures (1973) / Richard Corliss --
4. Genres: Comedy's greatest era (1949) / James Agee --
The Westerner (1954) / Robert Warshow --
The imagination of disaster (1967) / Susan Sontag --
Notes on Film noir (1972) / Paul Schrader --
5. Directors: Undirectable director: John Huston (1950) / James Agee --
Preston Sturges: success in the movies (1954) / Manny Farber (with W.S. Poster) --
John Ford: The grapes of wrath (1973) / Andrew Sarris --
Notes on the nihilist poetry of Sam Peckinpah (1976) --
6. Performers: Cagney: great guy (1937) / Otis Ferguson --
The decline of the actor (1966) / Manny Farber --
The awful fate of the sex goddess (1968) / Parker Tyler --
Langdon (1971) / Penelope Gilliatt --
Marlon Brando (1973) / Molly Haskell --
7. Entertainment: Artists among the flickers (Three songs about Lenin) (1934) / Otis Ferguson --
Three short reviews (1945-48) / James Agee --
The greatest story ever told (1965) / Dwight Macdonald --
Three program notes (1966) / Pauline Kael.
Juvenile Audience
Film criticism --United States.
Motion pictures.
Critique cinématographique ---États-Unis.
F DAR
Awake in the dark : an anthology of American film criticism, 1915 to the present/ edited by David Denby. - New York : Vintage Book. 1977. - xxii, 391 pages : 21 cm.
1. In defense of a popular new art form: Thirty differences between the photoplays and the stage (1915) / Vachel Lindsay --
The Keystone the builders rejected (1923) / Gilbert Seldes --
Style and medium in the motion pictures (1934; revised 1947) / Erwin Panofsky --
Life goes to the pictures (1940) / Otis Ferguson --
David Wark Griffith (1948) / James Agee --
Underground films (1957) / Manny Farber --
Bonnie and Clyde (1967) --
2. Film as high art: The passion of Jeanne d'Arc (1929) / Harry Alan Potamkin --
M (1933) / William Troy --
La notte (1962) / Stanley Kauffmann --
8 1/2: Fellini's obvious masterpiece (1964) / Dwight Macdonald --
The passion of Anna (1970) --
3. Critical method: Preface to The immediate experience (1954) / Robert Warshow --
Circles and squares: joys and Sarris (1963) / Pauline Kael --
A critical credo (1967) / John Simon --
Toward a theory of film history -introduction to The American cinema (1968) / Andrew Sarris --
State of siege (1973) / Andrew Sarris --
Notes on a screenwriter's theory, 1973 -introduction to Talking pictures (1973) / Richard Corliss --
4. Genres: Comedy's greatest era (1949) / James Agee --
The Westerner (1954) / Robert Warshow --
The imagination of disaster (1967) / Susan Sontag --
Notes on Film noir (1972) / Paul Schrader --
5. Directors: Undirectable director: John Huston (1950) / James Agee --
Preston Sturges: success in the movies (1954) / Manny Farber (with W.S. Poster) --
John Ford: The grapes of wrath (1973) / Andrew Sarris --
Notes on the nihilist poetry of Sam Peckinpah (1976) --
6. Performers: Cagney: great guy (1937) / Otis Ferguson --
The decline of the actor (1966) / Manny Farber --
The awful fate of the sex goddess (1968) / Parker Tyler --
Langdon (1971) / Penelope Gilliatt --
Marlon Brando (1973) / Molly Haskell --
7. Entertainment: Artists among the flickers (Three songs about Lenin) (1934) / Otis Ferguson --
Three short reviews (1945-48) / James Agee --
The greatest story ever told (1965) / Dwight Macdonald --
Three program notes (1966) / Pauline Kael.
Juvenile Audience
Film criticism --United States.
Motion pictures.
Critique cinématographique ---États-Unis.
F DAR