num_pages: 550
description: Most overviews of film are written from some high, sunlit mountaintop. In this first collection of Harlan Ellison's cinema criticism (with expanded, never-before-collected articles as well as an essay written especially for this volume) come from the darkened interiors of a thousand movie houses where this most peculiar of all Observers of the Passing Scene has spent much of his life. The view is guaranteed to make you grind your teeth in anger, nod your head in blessed agreement, and open your eyes in a manner of judging films that is definitely not plebeian. Harlan Ellison's love affair with movies is obvious. As an essayist, he has no equal; as a film critic he has no friends. Take care.
title: Harlan Ellison's Watching
titlecomplete: Harlan Ellison's Watching
genres: Criticism, Film, Reference, Humor, Media Tie In, Science, Pop Culture, Essays, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 647
awards: awardedAt: 599644800000
name: Bram Stoker Award
category: Best Non-Fiction, awardedAt: 631180800000
name: Hugo Award
category: Best Nonfiction Book, awardedAt: 631180800000
name: World Fantasy Award
category: Best Collection
publisher: Underwood Books, Incorporated