| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
xxii, 391 pages ; 21 cm |
| Contents |
1. In defense of a popular new art form: Thirty differences between the photoplays and the stage (1915) / Vachel Lindsay -- Keystone the builders rejected (1923) / Gilbert Seldes -- Style and medium in the motion pictures (1934; revised 1947) / Erwin Panofsky -- Life goes to the pictures (1940) / Otis Ferguson -- David Wark Griffith (1948) / James Agee -- Underground films (1957) / Manny Farber -- Bonnie and Clyde (1967) -- 2. Film as high art: Passion of Jeanne d'Arc (1929) / Harry Alan Potamkin -- M (1933) / William Troy -- La notte (1962) / Stanley Kauffmann -- 8 1/2: Fellini's obvious masterpiece (1964) / Dwight Macdonald -- Passion of Anna (1970) -- 3. Critical method: Preface to The immediate experience (1954) / Robert Warshow -- Circles and squares: joys and Sarris (1963) / Pauline Kael -- A critical credo (1967) / John Simon -- Toward a theory of film history -introduction to The American cinema (1968) / Andrew Sarris -- State of siege (1973) / Andrew Sarris -- Notes on a screenwriter's theory, 1973 -introduction to Talking pictures (1973) / Richard Corliss -- 4. Genres: Comedy's greatest era (1949) / James Agee -- Westerner (1954) / Robert Warshow -- Imagination of disaster (1967) / Susan Sontag -- Notes on Film noir (1972) / Paul Schrader -- 5. Directors: Undirectable director: John Huston (1950) / James Agee -- Preston Sturges: success in the movies (1954) / Manny Farber (with W.S. Poster) -- John Ford: The grapes of wrath (1973) / Andrew Sarris -- Notes on the nihilist poetry of Sam Peckinpah (1976) -- 6. Performers: Cagney: great guy (1937) / Otis Ferguson -- Decline of the actor (1966) / Manny Farber -- Awful fate of the sex goddess (1968) / Parker Tyler -- Langdon (1971) / Penelope Gilliatt -- Marlon Brando (1973) / Molly Haskell -- 7. Entertainment: Artists among the flickers (Three songs about Lenin) (1934) / Otis Ferguson -- Three short reviews (1945-48) / James Agee -- Greatest story ever told (1965) / Dwight Macdonald -- Three program notes (1966) / Pauline Kael. |
| Form |
Also issued online. |
| Subject |
Film criticism -- United States.
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Film criticism. |
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United States. |
| Genre/Form |
Motion pictures.
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Motion pictures.
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| Added Author |
Denby, David, 1943-
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Awake in the dark. 1st ed. New York : Vintage Books, 1977 (OCoLC)557941811 |
| ISBN |
0394721942 (paperback) |
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9780394721941 (paperback) |
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