| Edition |
[1st ed.] |
| Description |
xv, 458 pages ; 24 cm |
| Note |
"An Atlantic Monthly Press book." |
| Contents |
The bottom of the pit -- Waiting for orgy -- Off with the statues' heads! -- High school and other forms of madness -- Somebody else's success -- Private worlds -- The once and future king? -- Blood and snow -- Kazan's latest arrangements -- The bourgeoisie and the rabble -- Elfskin -- Gloria, the girl without hope -- Americana -- Keep going -- English bull -- Blessed profanity -- The man who loved war -- Duds -- Trends and paroxysms -- The beauty of destruction -- Recognizable human behavior -- Fellini's "mondo Trasho" -- Scavengers with computers -- Lust for "art" -- Numbing the audience -- Mothers -- Clobber-movie -- Kamikazes -- Men in trouble -- Mythmaking -- Teamwork -- Bolt & lean -- Slapstick tragedy -- World apart -- Stalinism -- Beyond pirandello -- Epic and crumbcrusher -- Megalomaniacs -- Spawn of the movies -- notes on heart and mind -- Genius -- How boys grow up -- Bolld and sand -- Warieties of paranoia -- Misanthropic movies -- Eric rohmer's refinement -- The peotry of images -- Pipe dream -- A movie classic is not nothing -- Movies in movies -- Helen of troy, sexual warrior -- Louis Malle's portrait of the artist as a young dog -- Urban gothic -- A bagel with a bite out of it -- El poto - head comic -- Winging it -- Notes on new actors, new movies -- Pater Brook's "night of the living dead" -- The fall and rise of vittorio de Sica -- Couples -- Stanley strangelove -- Pleasing and punishing -- Saint cop -- Baby machos -- Peckinpah's ebsession -- Killers and thieves -- The messiness of love -- Grinning -- Literary echoes - Muffled -- Alchemy -- Collaboration and resistance |
| Subject |
Motion pictures -- Reviews.
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Motion pictures. |
| Genre/Form |
Reviews.
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Reviews.
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| ISBN |
0316481769 |
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