The best American movie writing, 1999
By: edited by Peter Bogdanovich ; Jason Shinder, series editor
Contributors: Snider, Jason
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780312244934
Subjects: Motion pictures; Appreciation; Reviews; Motion picture industry in literature; Evaluation
Table of contents: title: Foreword  -- Jason Shinder; title: Introduction: Retracing older steps and new  -- Peter Bogdanovich; title: A box filled with magic  -- Martin Scorsese; title: The moviegoers : why don't people love the right movies anymore?  -- David Denby; title: A touch of the 1940s woman in the '90s  -- Molly Haskell; title: I fired Capra  -- Gore Vidal; title: I would toss myself aside : confessions of a Catholic film critic  -- Richard Alleva; title: Afterwards : the sweet smell of success  -- James Mangold; title: Moving pictures  -- Bruce Wagner; title: Mighty aphrodites  -- Terrence Rafferty; title: The glory of Cary Grant and other girlish delights  -- Elizabeth Abele; title: One good take : Frank Sinatra  -- Robert Horton; title: The color of war  -- Douglas Brinkley; title: Of guts and glory  -- Steven Spielberg; title: Eve's bayou : too good to be a "black" film?  -- Mia L. Mask; title: Yasujiro Ozu : the subtly observant eye  -- Phillip Lopate; title: Deliverance  -- John Brodie; title: 'Touch of evil' retouched  -- Jonathan Rosenbaum; title: You ain't heard nothin' yet  -- Andrew Sarris; title: My stardust memories  -- William Zinsser; title: Oh, Kay! You're ok with me  -- Rex Reed; title: The devil beats his wife : small moments and big statements in the films of Charles Burnett  -- Cliff Thompson; title: Cruel to be kind  -- Chris Chang; title: Riskinesque : how Robert Riskin spoke through Frank Capra and vice versa  -- Joseph McBride; title: Leo McCarey and "family values"  -- Robin Wood; title: Nine great movies  -- Roger Ebert; title: The movie of the century -- Geoffrey O'Brien.