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Levy Collection book		5001 nights at the movies : an a-z film guide for cinema, tv and video viewers / Pauline Kael London: Arrow Books, 1987. Call No: 9294 Author: Kael, Pauline Source: UK Place: London Publisher: Arrow Books PubDate: 1987 PhysDes: 22 cm ; 676 p. Subject: KAEL, PAULINE; CRITICISM. USA; CRITICS. USA ISBN: 0099335506 Donation: donated by the family of Wayne Levy, 2006 More info
book		The complete history of American film criticism / Jerry Roberts Santa Monica, CA: Santa Monica Press, c2010. Call No: 806.7(73) ROB Author: Roberts, Jerry Source: US Place: Santa Monica, CA Publisher: Santa Monica Press PubDate: c2010 PhysDes: 480 p. ; 24 cm Subject: CRITICISM. USA; CRITICS. USA Summary: "'The Complete History of American Film Criticism' is a chronicle of the most important and influential film critics of the 20th and 21st centuries. It begins with the pioneering talents of the Silent Era critics (Frank E. Woods, Robert E. Sherwood, Gilbert Seldes) who wrote about D.W. Griffith, Charlie Chaplin, and Mary Pickford, and continues on with the significant prewar reviewers (Otis Ferguson, Frank S. Nugent, Cecelia Ager) who examined the Marx Brothers, Frank Capra, and Marlene Dietrich, and the great postwar arbiters (James Agee, Manny Farber, Andrew Sarris) with their insights into film noir, Alfred Hitchcock, and foreign films" --Cover, p. 2. ISBN: 9781595800497 Contents: Introduction -- The beginnings : the silent era -- The sound era -- The postwar era -- The film generation : the 1960s -- The golden age : the 1970s -- The television age -- The malaise : the 1980s and 1990s -- The great wake : the 21st century More info
Online resource digital clippings file		CRITICISM.USA Digital clippings file available Call No: DIGITAL CLIPPINGS FILE PhysDes: Clippings Subject: CRITICISM.USA More info
book		The press gang : writings on cinema from New York Press, 1991-2011 / edited by Jim Colvill; Godfrey Cheshire; Matt Zoller Seitz; Armond White New York: Seven Stories Press, 2020. Call No: 67(049.32) PRE Author: Cheshire, Godfrey; Seitz, Matt Zoller; White, Armond Edition: 2020 Place: New York Publisher: Seven Stories Press PubDate: 2020 PhysDes: xxvi, 467 pages ; 26 cm Subject: CRITICISM. USA; CRITICS; NEW YORK IN FILMS; CHESHIRE, GODFREY Summary: A dialogue about cinema's legacy and best directors through essays by three of the best long-form critics out there, collected from the legendary NYPress for the first time. Comprising of the kind of long-form criticism that is all too rare these days, the weekly film columns in the NYPress included polemics, reviews, interviews, festival reports and features. A far cry from what is often derisively termed the "consumer report" mode of criticism, Cheshire, Seitz and White were passionately engaged with the film culture of both their own time, and what had come before. They constituted three distinctly different voices: equally accomplished, yet notably individual, perspectives on cinema. Their distinctive tastes and approaches were often positioned in direct dialogue with each other, a constant critical conversation that frequently saw each writer directly challenging his colleagues. Dialogue is important in criticism, and here you can find a healthy example of it existing under one proverbial roof. This three-way dialogue between Cheshire, Seitz and White assesses the 1990s in cinema, along with pieces on New York's vibrant repertory scene that allow us to read the authors' takes on directors such as Hitchcock, Lean, Kubrick, Welles, Fassbinder and Bresson; as well as topics such as the legacy of Star Wars, film noir, early film projection in New York City, the New York Film Critics Circle, Sundance, the terrorist attacks of 9/11 and the emerging cinema of Iran and Taiwan. -- publisher's web site ISBN: 9781609809775 More info
book		When the lights go down / Pauline Kael New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Call No: 67(04) KAE Author: Kael, Pauline Edition: 1980 Place: New York Publisher: Holt, Rinehart and Winston PhysDes: 592 pages ; 24 cm Subject: CRITICISM. USA; KAEL, PAULINE ISBN: 9780030425110 Donation: Generously donated by "Bulldog" Bill Dick More info

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