Title: The Rhapsodes
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.
Subjects: History, Film critics, Film criticism, Agee, james, 1909-1955
Places: United States
People: Manny Farber, James Agee (1909-1955), Otis Ferguson (1907-1943), Parker Tyler
Time periods: 20th century