Farber on Film: The Complete Film Writings of Manny Farber
A Library of America Special Publication
$74.68
- Paperback
824 pages
- Release Date
1 May 2016
Summary
New in paperback, the definitive collection of one of America’s most distinctive film critics.
A stunning showcase of film critic Manny Farber’s best writing on classic movies and film titans, from Martin Scorsese to Werner Herzog. Farber was an early discoverer of many filmmakers later acclaimed as American masters—Val Lewton, Preston Sturges, Samuel Fuller, Raoul Walsh, Anthony Mann. A prodigiously gifted painter himself, he brought to his writing an artist’s eye for what was on the…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781598534696 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1598534696 |
| Author: | Manny Farber, Robert Polito |
| Publisher: | The Library of America |
| Imprint: | The Library of America |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 824 |
| Release Date: | 1 May 2016 |
| Weight: | 1.06kg |
| Dimensions: | 235mm x 155mm |
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About The Author
Manny Farber
Manny Farber (1917-2008) was a unique figure among American movie critics. Champion of what he called “termite art” (focused, often eccentric virtuosity as opposed to “white elephant” monumentality), master of a one-of-a-kind prose style whose jazz-like phrasing and incandescent twists and turns made every review an adventure, he has long been revered by his peers. Susan Sontag called him “the liveliest, smartest, most original film critic this country ever produced”; for Peter Bogdanovich, he was “razor-sharp in his perceptions” and “never less than brilliant as a writer.”
Robert Polito, editor, is a poet, biographer, and critic whose books include Doubles, Hollywood & God, A Reader’s Guide to James Merrill’s The Changing Light at Sandover, and Savage Art- A Biography of Jim Thompson, for which he received a National Book Critics Circle Award and an Edgar Award. He directs the Graduate Writing Program at the New School in New York City.
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