{"product_id":"emile-de-antonio-9780816633647","title":"Emile De Antonio","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn absorbing collection of writings by and about an American original.   Innovative documentary filmmaker; friend of Andy Warhol, John Cage, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, and other leading figures of the New York art world; radical leftist critic of the Establishment; and legendary bon vivant: Emile de Antonio (1919-1989) was a larger-than-life personality and a key figure in the development of postwar American cinema. The films de Antonio made between 1963 and 1989including Point of Order, Rush to Judgment, In the Year of the Pig, Painters Painting, and Millhouse: A White Comedyrevolutionized the documentary format and inspired a generation of artists and filmmakers. A decade after his death, his cinematic legacyranging from the brilliantly edited compilation of the 1954 Army-McCarthy hearings that helped construct Senator Joseph McCarthy's reputation as a rogue demagogue (Point of Order) to a meditative juxtaposition of documents about F.B.I. director J. Edgar Hoover and intimat","brand":"University of Minnesota Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405944922455,"sku":"9780816633647","price":18.89,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780816633647.jpg?v=1730493994","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/emile-de-antonio-9780816633647","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}