Negative space : Manny Farber on the movies
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Negative space : Manny Farber on the movies
Da Capo Press, 1998
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"First Da Capo Press edition"--T.p. verso
Includes index
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Description
Manny Farber, one of the most important critics in movie history, championed the American action filmthe bravado of Howard Hawks, the art brut styling of Samuel Fuller, the crafty, sordid entertainments of Don Siegelat a time when other critics dismissed the genre. His witty, incisive criticism later worked exacting language into an exploration of the feelings and strategies that went into low-budget and radical films as diverse as Michael Snow's Wavelength, Werner Herzog's Fata Morgana , and Chantal Akerman's Jeanne Dielman. Expanded with an in-depth interview and seven essays written with his wife, artist Patricia Patterson, Negative Space gathers Farber's most influential writings, making this an indispensable collection for all lovers of film.
Table of Contents
* Introduction * Underground Films * Howard Hawks * John Huston * The Third Man * Detective Story * In the Street * Val Lewton * Short and Happy * Blame the Audience * Best Films of 1951 * Ugly Spotting * Fight Films * Home of the Brave * The Gimp * Nearer My Agee to Thee * Preston Sturges: Success in the Movies (written with W. S. Poster) * Frank Capra * Parade Floats * Hard-Sell Cinema * Don Siegel * Samuel Fuller * White Elephant Art vs. Termite Art * The Decline of the Actor * Cartooned Hip Acting * Day of the Lesteroid * The Wizard of Gauze * The Cold That Came into The Spy * Rain in the Face, Dry Gulch, and Squalling Mouth * Pish-Tush * The Subverters * Carbonated Dyspepsia * One-to-One * How I Won the War * Clutter * Shame * New York Film Festival1967 * New York Film Festival1968 * New York Film Festival1968, Afterthoughts * New York Film Festival1969 * Experimental Films * Canadian Underground * Michael Snow * Jean-Luc Godard * La Chinoise and Belle de Jour * Louis Buuel * Raoul Walsh * Nicholas Roeg * Werner Herzog * Rainer Werner Fassbinder * New York Film Festival--1975 * The Power and the Gory * Kitchen Without Kitch * Manny Farber and Patricia Patterson Interviewed by Richard Thompson
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