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Started by Chris Lott
Tue, 15 Jun 2004 07:59
Essential writing about film?
Author: Chris Lott
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 07:59
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 07:59
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If you care about such things, what books would you recommend as essential writing about film (review, criticism, theory, history)? Thanks in advance for any suggestions... c
Re: Essential writing about film?
Author: John Harkness
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 05:57
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 05:57
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On Tue, 15 Jun 2004 07:59:13 -0000, Chris Lott <chris.lott[AT]gmail.com> wrote: >If you care about such things, what books would you recommend as essential >writing about film (review, criticism, theory, history)? Thanks in advance >for any suggestions... > >c Andre Bazin, What is Cinema Pauline Kael, I Lost it At the Movies Andrew Sarris, Politics and Cinema Kevin Brownlow, The Parade's Gone By Akira Kurosawa, My Last Sigh
Re: Essential writing about film?
Author: monsieurblob@hot
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 09:19
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 09:19
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Chris Lott <chris.lott[AT]gmail.com> wrote in message news:<Xns9508F40229B31chrislgmail@216.168.3.30>... > If you care about such things, what books would you recommend as essential > writing about film (review, criticism, theory, history)? Thanks in advance > for any suggestions... > > c the oxford guide to film studies is a gem. practically every sentence suggests other books so its more a sort of an amazing mosaic. a nice rich sober introduction to the madness that is film studies ignore the ones harkness recommended you, except maaayyybe bazins book. but only read bazin's book if you've watched the movies he talks about which is highly unlikely so you might be better off just watching the pics instead. klevan, vf perkins, kent jones and a few others are good. avoid shitty cognitivist theory, pauline kael and andrew sarris like the plague. john harkness himself is an awful writer. have fun.
Re: Essential writing about film?
Author: leo86@my-deja.co
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 11:00
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 11:00
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Chris Lott <chris.lott[AT]gmail.com> wrote in message news:<Xns9508F40229B31chrislgmail@216.168.3.30>... > If you care about such things, what books would you recommend as essential > writing about film (review, criticism, theory, history)? Thanks in advance > for any suggestions... > > Here's an eclectic list: James Agee's collected film reviews (I forget what it's called and I'm not at home to check). Manny Farber, "Negative Space" Pauline Kael's various collected film reviews. Andrew Sarris: "The American Cinema" "Kings of the Bs" by Todd McCarthy and one other guy. "Horizons West" by Jim Kitses "Violent America: the Movies 1946-1964" by Lawrence Allowayi. Other favorites: "The Phantom Empire" by Geoffrey O'Brien "Screening History" by Gore Vidal "The Devil Finds Work" by James Baldwin (re: these last two titles: two of the best works on film I've ever read by authors not normally associated with the subject) For an overall film history text, I really can't think of a good one offhand. We used to have to read "The Living Art" by Arthur Knight, back in the day. For me the best way to learn film history is by watching a lot of old movies. When you see something that intrigues you, for whatever reason, look for works by the same people, or from the same period, the same studio, etc. Read the credits (easier with old movies because they were all at the beginning of the movie and not the end).
Re: Essential writing about film?
Author: Dave Garrett
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 11:38
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 11:38
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In article <IaFzc.1664$Pt.58@newssvr19.news.prodigy.com>, jumblejim@prodigy.spam says... > "John Harkness" <jhXaYrknessZ@sympatico.ca> wrote in message > news:mphtc0ti54imb88rr6nptgkvu5cop96fkj@4ax.com... > > On Tue, 15 Jun 2004 07:59:13 -0000, Chris Lott > > <chris.lott[AT]gmail.com> wrote: > > >If you care about such things, what books would you recommend as > essential > > >writing about film (review, criticism, theory, history)? Thanks in > advance > > >for any suggestions... > > > > > >c > > > > Akira Kurosawa, My Last Sigh > > Is this another title for Something Like an Autobiography? Or am I > seriously out of touch with a subject I thought on which I was highly well > informed? Something Like an Autobiography is indeed the title of Kurosawa's book. I suspect John is referring to Luis Bunuel's book, which is titled My Last Sigh. Dave
Re: Essential writing about film?
Author: John Harkness
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 12:30
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 12:30
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On Tue, 15 Jun 2004 16:09:12 GMT, "Jim Beaver" <jumblejim@prodigy.spam> wrote: > >"John Harkness" <jhXaYrknessZ@sympatico.ca> wrote in message >news:mphtc0ti54imb88rr6nptgkvu5cop96fkj@4ax.com... >> On Tue, 15 Jun 2004 07:59:13 -0000, Chris Lott >> <chris.lott[AT]gmail.com> wrote: >> >> >If you care about such things, what books would you recommend as >essential >> >writing about film (review, criticism, theory, history)? Thanks in >advance >> >for any suggestions... >> > >> >c >> >> Akira Kurosawa, My Last Sigh > >Is this another title for Something Like an Autobiography? Or am I >seriously out of touch with a subject I thought on which I was highly well >informed? > >Jim Beaver > recombinant autobiographies. I was thinking of both Kurosawa's and Bunuel's, and managed to put them together. John Harkness
Re: Essential writing about film?
Author: "Jim Beaver"
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 16:09
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 16:09
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"John Harkness" <jhXaYrknessZ@sympatico.ca> wrote in message news:mphtc0ti54imb88rr6nptgkvu5cop96fkj@4ax.com... > On Tue, 15 Jun 2004 07:59:13 -0000, Chris Lott > <chris.lott[AT]gmail.com> wrote: > > >If you care about such things, what books would you recommend as essential > >writing about film (review, criticism, theory, history)? Thanks in advance > >for any suggestions... > > > >c > > Akira Kurosawa, My Last Sigh Is this another title for Something Like an Autobiography? Or am I seriously out of touch with a subject I thought on which I was highly well informed? Jim Beaver
Re: Essential writing about film?
Author: schultr@mail.biu
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 17:20
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 17:20
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In rec.arts.movies.past-films Dave Garrett <dave@compassnet.com> wrote: : Something Like an Autobiography is indeed the title of Kurosawa's book. : I suspect John is referring to Luis Bunuel's book, which is titled My : Last Sigh. And both of them are well worth reading, whatever the title. ----- Richard Schultz schultr@mail.biu.ac.il Department of Chemistry, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel Opinions expressed are mine alone, and not those of Bar-Ilan University ----- "How many boards would the Mongols hoard if the Mongol hordes got bored?"
Re: Essential writing about film?
Author: Grand Inquisitor
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 19:09
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 19:09
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Chris Lott wrote: > If you care about such things, what books would you recommend as essential > writing about film (review, criticism, theory, history)? Thanks in advance > for any suggestions... > > c I, Fellini Fellini on Fellini Any good biography on Kubrick Sculpting in Time -- This signature brought to you by Coca-Cola(tm)
Re: Essential writing about film?
Author: plated metal
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 23:45
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 23:45
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John Harkness wrote: > On Tue, 15 Jun 2004 07:59:13 -0000, Chris Lott > <chris.lott[AT]gmail.com> wrote: > > >>If you care about such things, what books would you recommend as essential >>writing about film (review, criticism, theory, history)? Thanks in advance >>for any suggestions... >> >>c > > > Andre Bazin, What is Cinema > Pauline Kael, I Lost it At the Movies > Andrew Sarris, Politics and Cinema > Kevin Brownlow, The Parade's Gone By > Akira Kurosawa, My Last Sigh > I'm a sucker for David Thomson's "Biographical Dictionary of the Cinema" (although I've only got the first ed, and it's now on its fourth). Full of juicy stuff to dip into. -p
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