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<p>a Provocative And Dynamic Force In American Culture Since The Early Twentieth Century, Movies Have Presented Several Generations Of American Writers With A New, Fascinating, And Challenging Subject. How Writers Rose To The Challenge, And In The Process Created An Extraordinary Body Of Work-passionate, Contentious, Restlessly Curious-makes For A Dazzling And Constantly Entertaining Volume. I Have Focused, Writes Editor Phillip Lopate, On Film Criticism As An Art In Itself-the Magnet For Strong, Elegant, Eloquent, Enjoyable Writing. <br><br> <i>american Movie Critics</i> Is An Anthology Of Unparalleled Scope That Charts The Rise Of Movies As Art, Industry, And Mass Entertainment. Beginning In The Silent Era-with Poets Vachel Lindsay And Carl Sandburg Hailing The New Medium And Edmund Wilson Paying Tribute To Chaplin's Gold Rush-the Collection Traces The Rapid Evolution Of The Medium In An Age Of Tumultuous Political And Social Changes. Here Are The Great Movie Critics Who Forged A Forceful Vernacular Idiom For Talking About The New Art: Otis Ferguson In The 1930s Finding In James Cagney The Dignity Of The Genuine Worn As Easily As His Skin; James Agee In The 1940s On American War

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Author

Phillip Lopate

Publisher

New York: Library of America

Published

2008

Language

EN

ISBN

9781598530223

Category

reference

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Reference

Rating

4.2 / 5 (20 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14