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  | | Cinematic Encounters 2(1st Edition) Portraits and Polemics by Jonathan Rosenbaum Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 2019 by University Of Illinois Press ISBN-13: 978-0-252-08438-6, ISBN: 0-252-08438-1 "Eschewing the idea of film reviewer-as-solitary-expert, Jonathan Rosenbaum continues to advance his belief that a critic's ideal role is to mediate and facilitate our public discussion of cinema. Portraits and Polemics presents debate as an important form of cinematic encounter whether one argues with filmmakers themselves, on behalf of their work, or with one's self. Rosenbaum takes on filmmakers like Chantal Akerman, Richard Linklater ..." |
 | | Goodbye Cinema, Hello Cinephilia(1st Edition) Film Culture in Transition by Jonathan Rosenbaum Paperback, 408 Pages, Published 2010 by University Of Chicago Press ISBN-13: 978-0-226-72665-6, ISBN: 0-226-72665-7 "The esteemed film critic Jonathan Rosenbaum has brought global cinema to American audiences for the last four decades. His incisive writings on individual filmmakers define film culture as a diverse and ever-evolving practice, unpredictable yet subject to analyses just as diversified as his own discriminating tastes. For Rosenbaum, there is no high or low cinema, only more interesting or less interesting films, and the pieces collected ..." |
 | | Movie Wars How Hollywood and the Media Limit What Movies We Can See by Jonathan Rosenbaum Paperback, 240 Pages, Published 2002 by Chicago Review Press ISBN-13: 978-1-55652-454-7, ISBN: 1-55652-454-4 "Is the cinema, as writers from David Denby to Susan Sontag have claimed, really dead? Contrary to what we have been led to believe, films are better than everwe just can t see the good ones. Movie Wars cogently explains how movies are packaged, distributed, and promoted, and how, at every stage of the process, the potential moviegoer is treated with contempt. Using examples ranging from the "New York Times" s coverage of the Cannes film ..." |
 | | Movies as Politics(1st Edition) by Jonathan Rosenbaum Paperback, 350 Pages, Published 1997 by University Of California Press ISBN-13: 978-0-520-20615-1, ISBN: 0-520-20615-0 "In this new collection of reviews and essays, Jonathan Rosenbaum focuses on the political and social dynamics of the contemporary movie scene. Rosenbaum, widely regarded as the most gifted contemporary American commentator on the cinema, explores the many links between film and our ideological identities as individuals and as a society. Readers will find revealing examinations of, for example, racial stereotyping in the debates surround ..." |
 | | Placing Movies(Updated) The Practice of Film Criticism by Jonathan Rosenbaum Paperback, 348 Pages, Published 1995 by University Of California Press ISBN-13: 978-0-520-08633-3, ISBN: 0-520-08633-3 "Jonathan Rosenbaum, longtime contributor to such publications as Film Quarterly, Sight and Sound, and The Village Voice, is arguably the most eloquent, insightful film critic writing in America today. Placing Movies, the first collection of his work, gathers together thirty of his most distinctive and illuminating pieces. Written over a span of twenty-one years, these essays cover an extraordinarily broad range of films—from Hollywood b ..." |
 | | Cinematic Encounters Interviews and Dialogues by Jonathan Rosenbaum Paperback, 296 Pages, Published 2018 by University Of Illinois Press ISBN-13: 978-0-252-08388-4, ISBN: 0-252-08388-1 "Godard. Fuller. Rivette. Endfield. Tarr. In his celebrated career as a film critic, Jonathan Rosenbaum has undertaken wide-ranging dialogues with many of the most daring and important auteurs of our time. Cinematic Encounters collects more than forty years of interviews that embrace Rosenbaum's vision of film criticism as a collaboration involving multiple voices. Rosenbaum accompanies Orson Welles on a journey back to Heart of Darkness ..." |
 | | Discovering Orson Welles(1st Edition) by Jonathan Rosenbaum Paperback, 346 Pages, Published 2007 by University Of California Press ISBN-13: 978-0-520-25123-6, ISBN: 0-520-25123-7 "Of the dozens of books written about Orson Welles, most focus on the central enigma of Welles' career: why did someone so extravagantly talented neglect to finish so many projects? Film critic Jonathan Rosenbaum has long believed that to dwell on this aspect of the Welles canon is to overlook the wealth of information available by studying the unrealized works. "Discovering Orson Welles" collects Rosenbaum's writings to date on Welles - ..." |
 | | The Adorable Beastling (Hardback) by Jonathan Rosenbaum Hardcover, 32 Pages, Published 2019 by Action Lab Entertainment 2019-12-03 ISBN-13: 978-1-63229-523-1, ISBN: 1-63229-523-7 ""This is the tale of The Ugly Duckling in reverse. In this world, Beastling are fierce creatures that scare for food. But one group of young Beastlings have an adorable oddball among them who is too cute to live up to the Beastling ways." |
 | | Essential Cinema On the Necessity of Film Canons by Jonathan Rosenbaum Paperback, 472 Pages, Published 2008 by Johns Hopkins University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8018-8971-4, ISBN: 0-8018-8971-5 "In his astute and deeply informed film reviews and essays, Jonathan Rosenbaum regularly provides new and brilliant insights into the cinema as art, entertainment, and commerce. Guided by a personal canon of great films, Rosenbaum sees, in the ongoing hostility toward the idea of a canon shared by many within the field of film studies, a missed opportunity both to shape the discussion about cinema and to help inform and guide casual and ..." |
 | | Moving Places(Reprint) A Life at the Movies by Jonathan Rosenbaum Paperback, 202 Pages, Published 1995 by University Of California Press ISBN-13: 978-0-520-08907-5, ISBN: 0-520-08907-3 ""Moving Places" is the brilliant account of a life steeped in and shaped by the movies - part autobiography, part film analysis, and 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 ..." |
 | | Dead Man (BFI Modern Classics) by Jonathan Rosenbaum Paperback, 96 Pages, Published 2000 by British Film Institute ISBN-13: 978-0-85170-806-5, ISBN: 0-85170-806-4 "###############################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################" |
 | | Moving Places A Life at the Movies by Jonathan Rosenbaum Paperback, 280 Pages, Published 1980 by Harpercollins Publisher ISBN-13: 978-0-06-090823-2, ISBN: 0-06-090823-8 |
 | | Movie Wars(1st Edition) How Hollywood and the Media Conspire to Limit What Films We Can See (Hardback) by Jonathan Rosenbaum Hardcover, 256 Pages, Published 2002 by Chicago Review Press ISBN-13: 978-1-55652-406-6, ISBN: 1-55652-406-4 "Movie Wars cogently explains how movies are packaged, distributed, and promoted, and how, at every stage of the process, the potential moviegoer is treated with contempt." |
 | | Film The Front Line, 1983 by Jonathan Rosenbaum Paperback, 238 Pages, Published 1983 by Arden Pr ISBN-13: 978-0-912869-03-2, ISBN: 0-912869-03-8 "The Film : The Front Line volumes treat approximately 20 filmmakers who are changing the shape of the movies shown in our neighborhood theaters, though their work will likely never be seen there. Jonathan Rosenbaum makes accessible the work of such neglected experimental and personal filmmakers as Chantal Akerman, Jon Jost, Ulrike Ottinger, Yvonne Rainer, and Mark Rappaport. These and others included here have been treated before ..." |
 | | Abbas Kiarostami(2nd Edition) Expanded Second Edition (Contemporary Film Directors) by Mehrnaz Saeed-Vafa, Jonathan Rosenbaum Paperback, 212 Pages, Published 2018 by University Of Illinois Press ISBN-13: 978-0-252-08351-8, ISBN: 0-252-08351-2 "Before his death in 2016, Abbas Kiarostami wrote or directed more than thirty films in a career that mirrored Iranian cinema's rise as an international force. His 1997 feature Taste of Cherry made him the first Iranian filmmaker to win the Palme d'Or at Cannes. Critics' polls continue to place Close-Up (1990) and Through the Olive Trees (1994) among the masterpieces of world cinema. Yet Kiarostami's naturalistic impulses and winding com ..." |
 | | Greed(1st Edition) (BFI Film Classics) by Jonathan Rosenbaum Paperback, 96 Pages, Published 2008 by British Film Institute ISBN-13: 978-0-85170-358-9, ISBN: 0-85170-358-5 "Norris, Frank, McTeague: A Story of San Francisco (critical edition edited by Donald Pizer, New York and London: W. W. Norton & Co, 1977). Norris, Frank, Mc Teague: A Story of San Francisco (New ... Rosenbaum, Jonathan, 'Second Thoughts on Stroheim', Film Comment, May-June 1974. Rosenbaum, Jonathan, ' Erich von Stroheim', ... Sadoul, Georges, Histotre Generale du Cinema, tome VI: I. Art muet (Paris: Editions Denoel, 1975). Steinberg ..." |
 | | Essential Cinema(1st Edition) On the Necessity of Film Canons by Jonathan Rosenbaum Hardcover, 472 Pages, Published 2004 by Johns Hopkins University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8018-7840-4, ISBN: 0-8018-7840-3 "In his astute and deeply informed film reviews and essays, Jonathan Rosenbaum regularly provides new and brilliant insights into the cinema as art, entertainment, and commerce. Guided by a personal canon of great films, Rosenbaum sees, in the ongoing hostility toward the idea of a canon shared by many within the field of film studies, a missed opportunity both to shape the discussion about cinema and to help inform and guide casual and ..." |
 | | Abbas Kiarostami(1st Edition) (Contemporary Film Directors) by Mehrnaz Saeed-Vafa, Jonathan Rosenbaum Paperback, 168 Pages, Published 2003 by University Of Illinois Press ISBN-13: 978-0-252-07111-9, ISBN: 0-252-07111-5 "This penetrating study of the Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami's life and work engages a cross-cultural dialogue between Mehrnaz Saeed-Vafa, an Iranian filmmaker, and Jonathan Rosenbaum, a film critic, both of whom have an intense interest in Kiarostami's work. A pioneer in Iranian cinema and considered one of the most controversial and influential filmmakers alive, Kiarostami has written or directed more than twenty films. He gained ..." |
 | | Midnight Movies(Reprint) (Da Capo Paperback) by Jim Hoberman, Jonathan Rosenbaum Paperback, 360 Pages, Published 1991 by Da Capo Press ISBN-13: 978-0-306-80433-5, ISBN: 0-306-80433-6 "These are a few of the over 100 films discussed in Midnight Movies, a comprehensive and in-depth look at the subculture movies of the past three decades. Here is the complete history of cult films, their makers, and their audience; an examination of how films become "midnight movies," and what keeps audiences coming back to see them over and over; an exploration of the connections between subversive film and the subcultures from which i ..." |
 | | Midnight Movies(1st Edition) by J. Hoberman, Jonathan Rosenbaum Paperback, 338 Pages, Published 1983 by Harper, 1983 ISBN-13: 978-0-06-090990-1, ISBN: 0-06-090990-0 "These are a few of the over 100 films discussed in Midnight Movies, a comprehensive and in-depth look at the subculture movies of the past three decades. Here is the complete history of cult films, their makers, and their audience; an examination of how films become "midnight movies," and what keeps audiences coming back to see them over and over; an exploration of the connections between subversive film and the subcultures from which i ..." |
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