James Agee: Film Writing and Selected Journalism (Library of America)
James Agee had a passion for art in all its aspects, but it was the new art of the movies that was his greatest inspiration as a critic.Agee on Film: Reviews and Comments, the classic collection of his pioneering reviews from the 1940s, has long been recognized as the single most influential American book about movies. Witty, probing, lacerating in his moral criticisms, eloquent in his admiration of filmmakers from Charlie Chaplin to John Huston, Agee is a critic who engages the reader no matter what subject he is writing about. This volume contains the full text ofAgee on Filmalong with a trove of other previously uncollected film reviews; Agee's screenplay for Charles Laughton's gothic masterpieceThe Night of the Hunter; and a fascinating selection of Agee's penetrating journalism and book reviews.