Moving Places: A Life at the Movies - Softcover

Rosenbaum, Jonathan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0520089073 ISBN 13: 9780520089075

Publisher: University of California Press, 1995

Synopsis

Moving Places is the brilliant account of a life steeped in and shaped by the movies—part autobiography, part film analysis, part social history. Jonathan Rosenbaum, one of America's most gifted film critics, began his moviegoing in the 1950s in small-town Alabama, where his family owned and managed a chain of theaters.

Starting in the Deep South of his boyhood, Rosenbaum leads us through a series of "screen memories," making us aware of movies as markers of the past—when and where we saw them, with whom, and what we did afterward. The mood swings easily from sensual and poignant regret to screwball exuberance, punctuated along the way by a tribute to the glamorous Grace Kelly of Rear Window, a meditation on The Rocky Horror Picture Show and its improbable audience-community, and an extended riff on Rosenbaum's encounters with On Moonlight Bay.

Originally published in 1980, Moving Places is reissued now both as a companion volume to the author's latest book and as a means of introducing a new generation of film buffs to this unique, often humorous exploration of one man's life at the movies.

About this title

Review:

"The book is an admirable achievement. . . . It reminds us of how important films have been, and may remain."--"Film Quarterly

About the Author:

Jonathan Rosenbaum, film critic at the Chicago Reader, is author of Greed (1993) and Film: The Front Line 1983. He is also co-author, with J. Hoberman, of Midnight Movies (1983).

About this edition

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0520089073
• ISBN 13: 9780520089075
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 222