film criticism

Preston Sturges: A Woefully Underrated Filmmaker
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Preston Sturges: A Woefully Underrated Filmmaker

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 / 25 February 2016
One of the Golden Age of Hollywood's most richly complicated and woefully underrated figures gets the critical attention he deserves in this essay collection on his life and movies.
‘Political Animals’ Is a Rich and Wide-ranging Study of Contemporary Feminist Film
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‘Political Animals’ Is a Rich and Wide-ranging Study of Contemporary Feminist Film

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 / 15 February 2016
“Girls to the front!” Sophie Mayer’s superb study of contemporary feminist filmmaking is provocative, critically insightful and addictively readable.
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On James Wolcott’s Engaging, Irritating, Snarky and Insightful Criticisms

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 / 21 October 2013
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‘Life Itself’, From One of the Few Writers of the Modern Era Who Can Express Joy Without Schmaltz

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 / 9 September 2011
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Moral Ambiguity, Greyness and Imperfection in the Classic, ‘Once Upon a Time in the West’

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 / 23 June 2011
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An Overview of American Film Criticism from 1896 to Today

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 / 18 May 2010
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Life Between Two Deaths, 1989-2001, by Phillip E. Wegner

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 / 5 October 2009
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Man in the Dark by Paul Auster

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 / 14 August 2008
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Physical Evidence: Selected Film Criticism by Kent Jones

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 / 22 January 2008
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Making Waves: New Cinemas of the 1960s by Geoffrey Nowell-Smith

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 / 3 January 2008