The Rhapsodes
Subtitle: how 1940s critics changed American film culture
By: David Bordwell
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 174
ISBN-13: 9780226352176; 9780226352206
Subjects: History; Film critics; Film criticism
Description: 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. Film scholar and critic David Bordwell restores 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 vernacular prose.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 145-161) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: the film critic as superstar; title: The Rhapsodes; title: A newer criticism; title: Otis Ferguson: the way of the camera; title: James Agee: all there and primed to go off; title: Manny Farber: space man; title: Parker Tyler: a suave and wary guest; title: Afterlives.