Film Follies: The Cinema Out of Order - Softcover

Klawans, Stuart

 
9780304700547: Film Follies: The Cinema Out of Order
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0304700541 ISBN 13: 9780304700547
Publisher: Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd., 1998

Synopsis

Outlining a history of film going too far, of seeming madness and wasteful extravagance, this text examines films that are cinematic landmarks and monuments to directors' hubris, from Griffiths' "Intolerance" to Coppola's "Apocalypse Now" and Carax's "Les Amants du Pont-Neuf". The text explores the changing conditons of the industry under which figures such as L'Herbier and Lang, von Sternberg and Ophuls got their hands on the full apparatus of studio production, while behaving as individual artists. It questions the shape of film history from the viewpoint of these pictures and relates the notion that a failed work of art may be more glorious than a success.

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About the Author

Stuart Klawans was born on October 17, 1950 in Chicago, IL. Education: Yale, B.A. in English Literature, 1971. Expelled for helping to hold hostage the university business administrator, 1970. Besides writing a regular column for The Nation and the New York Daily News ("Museums"), Klawans has contributed to the Times Literary Supplement ("American Notes" column), NPR (commentaries on Fresh Air), The Village Voice, Grand Street, Threepenny Review, Entertainment Weekly, WBAI (film reviews on "Soundtrack"), the Chicago Tribune and The New York Times (once). He is represented in several anthologies, including The Best American Essays 1990 (Ticknor & Fields), edited by Justin Kaplan and Robert Atwan; Seeing Through Movies (Pantheon, 1990), edited by Mark Crispin Miller; and Foreign Affairs (Mercury House, 1991), edited by Kathy Schulz Huffins for the National Society of Film Critics. Klawans is a member of the New York Film Critics Circle and the National Society of Film Critics, and was a member of the selection committee for the New York Film Festival from 1992-95. Awards and honors: Arrested for trespass, Shoreham Nuclear Installation, 1979. Klawans's book Film Follies was nominated for a 1999 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism.

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Publisher
Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
Publication date
1998
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0304700541
ISBN 13 
9780304700547
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
188

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