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Celluloid Power Social Film Criticism from the Birth of a Nation to Judgment at Nuremberg

Platt David
Innbundet / 1992 / Engelsk

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780810824423
Publisert
1992-10-01
Utgiver
Vendor
Scarecrow Press
Vekt
903 gr
Høyde
220 mm
Bredde
153 mm
Dybde
45 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
652

Forfatter
Platt David

Om bidragsyterne

David Platt, a self-educated film journalist who was born in the Ukraine and grew up in Pennsylvania, founded the journal Experimantal Cinema in 1930 and wrote hundreds of film reviews for the Daily Worker and Jewish Currents between 1933 and 1990. As National Secretary of the Film and Photo League he edited its journal, Film Front, reprinted by Scarecrow Press in 1986 (Anthony Slide, ed.).

Celluloid Power Social Film Criticism from the Birth of a Nation to Judgment at Nuremberg

Platt David
Innbundet / 1992 / Engelsk
Platt David
Innbundet / 1992 / Engelsk
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In addition to pieces by neglected critics he has also included firsthand accounts by filmmakers and distributors....Equally important is his rescue from obscurity of essays with a social, if not specifically political angle....Recommended...

CHOICE

A scholarly and important collection...

Film Review Annual

As a celebration of artistic and intellectual aspiration in the face of perennial injustice, this book deserves a place in all serious film book collections.

Library Journal

In this unique anthology of social criticism, David Platt reprints the insightful contributions of more than fifty screenwriters, directors, producers, historians, and critics—men and women, radical and liberal, including not a few former political prisoners, deportees, and exiles—on diverse films from the earliest years of the film industry through the 1970s. Documentary films are included, and close attention is paid to nationalities and minorities. Among the contributors are Maxim Gorky, David Platt, Anthony Slide, Lewis Milestone, Jay Leyda, Kevin Brownlow, Harry Alan Potamkin, S.M. Einstein, Lewis Jacobs, Leo Seltzer, Albert Maltz, Ring Lardner, Jr., Jean Renoir, Abraham Polonsky, Lorraine Hansberry, Gale Sondergaard, Dalton Trumbo, Arthur Knight, and many others.
Les mer
Reprints the insightful contributions of more than fifty screenwriters, directors, producers, historians, and critics on diverse films from the earliest years of the film industry through the 1970s.

Relaterte produkter

In addition to pieces by neglected critics he has also included firsthand accounts by filmmakers and distributors....Equally important is his rescue from obscurity of essays with a social, if not specifically political angle....Recommended...

CHOICE

A scholarly and important collection...

Film Review Annual

As a celebration of artistic and intellectual aspiration in the face of perennial injustice, this book deserves a place in all serious film book collections.

Library Journal

In this unique anthology of social criticism, David Platt reprints the insightful contributions of more than fifty screenwriters, directors, producers, historians, and critics—men and women, radical and liberal, including not a few former political prisoners, deportees, and exiles—on diverse films from the earliest years of the film industry through the 1970s. Documentary films are included, and close attention is paid to nationalities and minorities. Among the contributors are Maxim Gorky, David Platt, Anthony Slide, Lewis Milestone, Jay Leyda, Kevin Brownlow, Harry Alan Potamkin, S.M. Einstein, Lewis Jacobs, Leo Seltzer, Albert Maltz, Ring Lardner, Jr., Jean Renoir, Abraham Polonsky, Lorraine Hansberry, Gale Sondergaard, Dalton Trumbo, Arthur Knight, and many others.
Les mer
Reprints the insightful contributions of more than fifty screenwriters, directors, producers, historians, and critics on diverse films from the earliest years of the film industry through the 1970s.

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780810824423
Publisert
1992-10-01
Utgiver
Vendor
Scarecrow Press
Vekt
903 gr
Høyde
220 mm
Bredde
153 mm
Dybde
45 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
652

Forfatter
Platt David

Om bidragsyterne

David Platt, a self-educated film journalist who was born in the Ukraine and grew up in Pennsylvania, founded the journal Experimantal Cinema in 1930 and wrote hundreds of film reviews for the Daily Worker and Jewish Currents between 1933 and 1990. As National Secretary of the Film and Photo League he edited its journal, Film Front, reprinted by Scarecrow Press in 1986 (Anthony Slide, ed.).

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