Guiltless pleasures : a David Sterritt film reader.

Author/creator Sterritt, David
Format Book
Edition1st ed.
Publication InfoJackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2005.
Descriptionxxxi, 281 pages ; 23 cm
Supplemental ContentTable of contents
Subjects
Motion pictures.

Contents Fumbling in the dark, or, Sorrows of a film critic -- Films, fatigue, and why a critic's opinions are just as iffy as yours -- Cinephilia, cinemania, cinema -- Hollywood players who've made a difference--Cassavetes, Eastwood, Martin, Nicholson -- Defining the situation--Brando, role-playing, and the Western as performance art -- Novelists and their movies--Mailer, Doctorow, Irving -- Allegory and enigma--the enduring fascination of fantasy -- Life isn't sweet--the movies of Mike Leigh -- Monty Python--lust for glory -- Creepies, crawlies, conundrums--David Cronenberg comes of age -- Fargo--the middle of nowhere? -- Coppola, Vietnam, and the ambivalent 1970s -- Representing atrocity--from the Holocaust to September 11 -- Thanatos ex machina--Godard caresses the dead -- Noé stands alone--an experiment with time -- Time code--narrative film and the avant-garde -- Renaldo & Clara meet John Cage--aleatory cinema and the aesthetics of incompetence -- Challenging the eye--three avant-garde imagemakers -- Many selves--paradox and poetry in the cinema of Willie Varela.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2004029419
ISBN1578067804 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN1578068185 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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