{"product_id":"placing-movies-9780520086333","title":"Placing Movies","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDedication and Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Starting Out in Film Criticism\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e One. The Critical Apparatus\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e Theory and Practice: The Criticism of\u003cbr\u003e Jean-Luc Godard\u003cbr\u003e Film Comment Journals, 1974-1977: Excerpts\u003cbr\u003e Edinburgh Encounters: A Consumers\/Producers\u003cbr\u003e Guide-in-Progress to Four Recent Avant-Garde Films\u003cbr\u003e Barthes \u0026amp; Film: 12 Suggestions\u003cbr\u003e A Bluffer's Guide to Bela Tarr\u003cbr\u003e They Drive by Night: The Criticism of Manny Farber\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Two. Touchstones\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e Ozu's GOOD MORNING\u003cbr\u003e Aspects of ANATAHAN\u003cbr\u003e Gold Diggers of 1953: Howard Hawks's\u003cbr\u003e GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES\u003cbr\u003e GERTRUD as Nonnarrative: The Desire for the Image\u003cbr\u003e THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE\u003cbr\u003e OTHELLO Goes Hollywood\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Three. Filinmakers\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e Work and Play in the House of Fiction:\u003cbr\u003e On Jacques Rivette\u003cbr\u003e The Tyranny of Sensitivity\u003cbr\u003e Love Films: A Cassavetes Retrospective\u003cbr\u003e The Death of Hulot\u003cbr\u003e Orson Welles's Essay Films and Documentary Fictions:\u003cbr\u003e A Two-Part Speculation\u003cbr\u003e The Importance of Being Perverse: Godard's KING LEAR\u003cbr\u003e Alain Resnais and MELO\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Four. Provocations\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e Jerry Lewis's HARDLY WORKING\u003cbr\u003e DOOMED LOVE: The Masterpiece You Missed\u003cbr\u003e RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK\u003cbr\u003e Mapping the Territory of Rlh11 Ruiz\u003cbr\u003e Notes Toward the Devaluation of Woody Allen\u003cbr\u003e Crass Consciousness: BARTON FINK\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Five. Inside and Outside the Movie Theater\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e Bird Watching\u003cbr\u003e Jean Vigo's Secret: L' ATALANTE\u003cbr\u003e Guilty by Omission\u003cbr\u003e His Master's Vice: Fuller's WHITE DOG\u003cbr\u003e Government Lies: THE PANAMA DECEPTION and\u003cbr\u003e DEEP COYER\u003cbr\u003e A Cinema of Uncertainty: Films by\u003cbr\u003e Michelangelo Antonioni\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53515438621015,"sku":"9780520086333","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/placing-movies-9780520086333","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}