Farber on Film: The Complete Film Writings
10 best books like Farber on Film: The Complete Film Writings (Manny Farber): The Genius of the System: Hollywood Filmmaking in the Studio Era, City of Nets: A Portrait of Hollywood in the 1940s, Agee on Film: Criticism and Comment on the Movies, Selected Essays, Essays, Leonard Maltin's Classic Movie Guide, The Film Encyclopedia: The Most Comprehensive Encyclopedia of World Cinema in a Single Volume, The Films in My Life, Goodbye Cinema, Hello Cinephilia: Film Culture in Transition, Film as a Subversive Art: By Amos Vogel
Author | Thomas Schatz |
ISBN | 0805046666 |
At a time when the studio is making a stunning comeback, film historian Thomas Schatz provides an indispensable account of Hollywood's tradional blend of business and art. This book lays to rest the persistent myth that businesspeople and producers stifle artistic talent and reveals instead the...
Author | Otto Friedrich |
ISBN | 0520209494 |
If you were going to have only one book on Hollywood, this is it. Beyond essential. Beyond ... well anything. Any book that combines the Marx Brothers with Thomas Mann with Howard Hughes with Brecht with Sam Goldwyn with ... It just goes on and it's one great story after another.
The key thing is...
Author | James Agee |
ISBN | 0375755292 |
"In my opinion, [Agee's] column is the most remarkable regular event in American journalism today."--W. H. Auden
James Agee was passionately involved with the movies throughout his life. A master of both fiction and nonfiction, he wrote about film in clean, smart prose as the reviewer for...
Author | David Hume |
ISBN | 0192836218 |
In his writings, David Hume set out to bridge the gap between the learned world of the academy and the marketplace of polite society. This collection, drawing largely on his Essays Mortal, Political, and Literary (1776 edition), comprehensively shows how far he succeeded.
As seen in these...
Author | Wallace Shawn |
ISBN | 1608460029 |
“Full of what you might call conversation starters: tricky propositions about morality... politics, privilege, runaway nationalist fantasies, collective guilt, and art as a force for change (or not)...It’s a treat to hear him speak his curious mind.”—O Magazine
In these beautiful...
Author | Leonard Maltin |
ISBN | 0452286204 |
From Leonard Maltin, author of the bestselling annual Movie Guide, comes this guide to classic movies. Leonard Maltin’s Classic Movie Guide includes more than 7,000 capsule reviews of classic movies, including: The Birth of a Nation (1915), Gone With the Wind (1939), The Philadelphia Story (1940),...
Author | Ephraim Katz |
ISBN | 0060742143 |
A completely revised and udpated edition of the classic film reference which has sold nearly 150,000 copies in its previous editions.
Ephraim Katz's The Film Encyclopedia is the most comprehensive one-volume encyclopedia on film and is considered the undisputed Bible of the movie industry....
Author | François Truffaut |
ISBN | 0306805995 |
François Truffaut (1932-1984), perhaps the most respected member of the New Wave group of French moviemakers, left a legacy of beloved and influential films that include The 400 Blows, Jules and Jim, Stolen Kisses, Day for Night and The Story of Adele H. Equally fascinating is the very large body of...
Author | Jonathan Rosenbaum |
ISBN | 0226726649 |
The esteemed film critic Jonathan Rosenbaum has brought global cinema to American audiences for the last four decades. His incisive writings on individual filmmakers define film culture as a diverse and ever-evolving practice, unpredictable yet subject to analyses just as diversified as his own...
Author | Amos Vogel |
ISBN | 1933045272 |
A classic returns! The original edition of Amos Vogel's seminal book, "Film as a Subversive Art" was first published in 1974, and has been out of print since 1987. According to Vogel--founder of Cinema 16, North America's legendary film society--the book details the "accelerating worldwide trend...
Author | Phillip Lopate |
ISBN | 1931082928 |
Excellent anthology. An essential component of any cinephile's library, I'd say.
The last section of this book is maybe the one I appreciated the most, because it creates a canon out of the mess and mass of recent movie criticism, gathering great, relatively recent pieces like Hoberman on...
Author | Raúl Ruiz |
ISBN | 2906571385 |
Chilean filmmaker Raoul Ruiz is the author of some 100 feature-length films, along with numerous plays and multi-media installations. In Poetics of Cinema, Ruiz takes a fresh approach to the major themes haunting our audio-visual civilization: the filmic unconscious, questions of utopia, the...
Author | Andrew Sarris |
ISBN | 0306807289 |
"The American Cinema is the Citizen Kane of film criticism, a brilliant book that elevated American directors from craftsmen to artists, launched the careers of numerous film critics, and shaped the aesthetics of a whole generation of viewers by providing new ways of looking at movies."--Emanuel...
Author | Christopher Hitchens |
ISBN | 0860916286 |
The global turmoil of the last few years has severely tested every analyst and commentator. Few have written with such insight as Christopher Hitchens about the large events — or with such discernment and wit about the small tell-tale signs of a disordered culture.
For the Sake of Argument...
Author | Peter Bogdanovich |
ISBN | 0345404572 |
Peter Bogdanovich, director, screenwriter, actor and critic, interviews sixteen legendary directors of the first hundred years of film - from Allan Dwan and Raoul Walsh to Leo McCarey, Alfred Hitchcock and Sidney Lumet. The conversations brought together in this book give us a history of the movies....
Everything Is Cinema: The Working Life of Jean-Luc Godard
Author | Richard Brody |
ISBN | 0805068864 |
A landmark biography explores the crucial resonances among the life, work, and times of one of the most influential filmmakers of our age
When Jean-Luc Godard wed the ideals of filmmaking to the realities of autobiography and current events, he changed the nature of cinema. Unlike...
The New Biographical Dictionary of Film: Expanded and Updated
Author | David Thomson |
ISBN | 0375709401 |
For almost thirty years, David Thomson’s Biographical Dictionary of Film has been not merely “the finest reference book ever written about movies” (Graham Fuller, Interview), not merely the “desert island book” of art critic David Sylvester, not merely “a great, crazy masterpiece”...
Author | Pauline Kael |
ISBN | 1598531093 |
"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,...
Visionary Film: The American Avant-Garde 1943-2000
Critics hailed previous editions of Visionary Film as the most complete work written on the exciting, often puzzling, and always controversial genre of American avant-garde film. This book has remained the standard text on American avant-garde film since the publication of its first edition in...
Author | Siegfried Kracauer |
ISBN | 0691025053 |
A landmark, now classic, study of the rich cinematic history of the Weimar Republic, From Caligari to Hitler was first published by Princeton University Press in 1947. Siegfried Kracauer--a prominent German film critic and member of Walter Benjamin's and Theodor Adorno's intellectual circle--broke...
The Films of Akira Kurosawa
Author | Donald Richie |
ISBN | 0520220374 |
In an epilogue provided for his incomparable study of Akira Kurosawa (1910-1998), Donald Richie reflects on Kurosawa's life work of thirty feature films and describes his last, unfinished project, a film set in the Edo period to be called The Ocean Was Watching.
Kurosawa remains unchallenged...
Author | Geoff Dyer |
ISBN | 0307377385 |
From a writer whose mastery encompasses fiction, criticism, and the fertile realm between the two, comes a new book that confirms his reputation for the unexpected.
In Zona, Geoff Dyer attempts to unlock the mysteries of a film that has haunted him ever since he first saw it thirty years ago:...
Author | John Cassavetes |
ISBN | 0571201571 |
Since his death in 1989, John Cassavettes has become increasingly renowned as a cinematic hero--a renegade loner who fought the Hollywood system, steering his own creative course in a career spanning thirty years. Having already established himself as an actor, he struck out as a filmmaker in 1959...