Description
Book SynopsisThis is a collection of film critic Jonathan Rosenbaum's work. Written over a span of 21 years, these essays cover a broad range of films - from Hollywood blockbusters to foreign art movies to experimental cinema. They include reviews, commentary and analysis of the practice of film criticism.
Table of ContentsDedication and Acknowledgments
Starting Out in Film Criticism
One. The Critical Apparatus
Introduction
Theory and Practice: The Criticism of
Jean-Luc Godard
Film Comment Journals, 1974-1977: Excerpts
Edinburgh Encounters: A Consumers/Producers
Guide-in-Progress to Four Recent Avant-Garde Films
Barthes & Film: 12 Suggestions
A Bluffer's Guide to Bela Tarr
They Drive by Night: The Criticism of Manny Farber
Two. Touchstones
Introduction
Ozu's GOOD MORNING
Aspects of ANATAHAN
Gold Diggers of 1953: Howard Hawks's
GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES
GERTRUD as Nonnarrative: The Desire for the Image
THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE
OTHELLO Goes Hollywood
Three. Filinmakers
Introduction
Work and Play in the House of Fiction:
On Jacques Rivette
The Tyranny of Sensitivity
Love Films: A Cassavetes Retrospective
The Death of Hulot
Orson Welles's Essay Films and Documentary Fictions:
A Two-Part Speculation
The Importance of Being Perverse: Godard's KING LEAR
Alain Resnais and MELO
Four. Provocations
Introduction
Jerry Lewis's HARDLY WORKING
DOOMED LOVE: The Masterpiece You Missed
RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK
Mapping the Territory of Rlh11 Ruiz
Notes Toward the Devaluation of Woody Allen
Crass Consciousness: BARTON FINK
Five. Inside and Outside the Movie Theater
Introduction
Bird Watching
Jean Vigo's Secret: L' ATALANTE
Guilty by Omission
His Master's Vice: Fuller's WHITE DOG
Government Lies: THE PANAMA DECEPTION and
DEEP COYER
A Cinema of Uncertainty: Films by
Michelangelo Antonioni
Bibliography
Index
