Guiltless pleasures
Subtitle: a David Sterritt film reader.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Jackson
Language: eng
Number of pages: 281
Subjects: Motion pictures.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Fumbling in the dark, or, sorrows of a film critic; title: Films, fatigue, and why a critic's opinions are just as iffy as yours; title: Cinephilia, cinemania, cinema; title: Hollywood players who've made a difference; title: Cassavetes, Eastwood, Martin, Nicholson; title: Defining the situation; title: Brando, role-playing, and the Western as performance art; title: Novelists and their movies; title: Mailer, Doctorow, Irving; title: Allegory and enigma; title: the enduring fascination of fantasy; title: Life isn't sweet; title: the movies of Mike Leigh; title: Monty Python; title: lust for glory; title: Creepies, crawlies, conundrums; title: David Cronenberg comes of age; title: Fargo; title: the middle of nowhere?; title: Coppola, Vietnam, and the ambivalent 1970s; title: Representing atrocity; title: from the Holocaust to September 11; title: Thanatos ex machina; title: Godard caresses the dead; title: Noé stands alone; title: an experiment with time; title: Time code; title: narrative film and the avant-garde; title: Renaldo & Clara meet John Cage; title: aleatory cinema and the aesthetics of incompetence; title: Challenging the eye; title: three avant-garde imagemakers; title: Many selves; title: paradox and poetry in the cinema of Willie Varela.