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Pauline Kael, Andrew Sarris, and Roger Ebert were three of America's most revered and widely read film critics, more famous than many of the movies they wrote about. But their remarkable contributions to the burgeoning American film criticism of the 1960s and beyond were deeply influenced by four earlier critics: Otis Ferguson, James Agee, Manny Farber, and Parker Tyler. Throughout the 1930s and '40s, Ferguson, Agee, Farber, and Tyler scrutinized what was on the screen with an intensity not previously seen in popular reviewing. Although largely ignored by the arts media of the day, they honed the sort of serious discussion of films that would be made popular decades later by Kael, Sarris, Ebert and their contemporaries. With The Rhapsodes, renowned film scholar and critic David Bordwellan heir to both those legaciesrestores to a wider audience the work of Ferguson, Agee, Farber, and Tyler, critics he calls the Rhapsodes for the passionate and deliberately offbeat nature of their ve

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      Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 04/04/2016
      ISBN13: 9780226352176, 978-0226352176
      ISBN10: 022635217X
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      Book Synopsis
      Pauline Kael, Andrew Sarris, and Roger Ebert were three of America's most revered and widely read film critics, more famous than many of the movies they wrote about. But their remarkable contributions to the burgeoning American film criticism of the 1960s and beyond were deeply influenced by four earlier critics: Otis Ferguson, James Agee, Manny Farber, and Parker Tyler. Throughout the 1930s and '40s, Ferguson, Agee, Farber, and Tyler scrutinized what was on the screen with an intensity not previously seen in popular reviewing. Although largely ignored by the arts media of the day, they honed the sort of serious discussion of films that would be made popular decades later by Kael, Sarris, Ebert and their contemporaries. With The Rhapsodes, renowned film scholar and critic David Bordwellan heir to both those legaciesrestores to a wider audience the work of Ferguson, Agee, Farber, and Tyler, critics he calls the Rhapsodes for the passionate and deliberately offbeat nature of their ve

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