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Awake in the dark : an anthology of American film criticism, 1915 to the present/ edited by David Denby.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Vintage Book. 1977.Description: xxii, 391 pages : 21 cmSubject(s): DDC classification:
  • F DAR
Summary: 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.
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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.

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