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The American Cinema - by Andrew Sarris (Paperback)

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  • "The American Cinema is the Citizen Kane of film criticism, a brilliant book that elevated American directors from craftsmen to artists, launched the careers of numerous film critics, and shaped the aesthetics of a whole generation of viewers by providing new ways of looking at movies.
  • About the Author: Andrew Sarris is film critic for the New York Observer and professor of cinema at Columbia University.
  • 392 Pages
  • Biography + Autobiography, General

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"The auteur theory, of which film criticAndrew Sarris was the leading American proponent, holds that artistry in cinema can be largely attributed to film directors, who, while often working against the"



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"The American Cinema is the Citizen Kane of film criticism, a brilliant book that elevated American directors from craftsmen to artists, launched the careers of numerous film critics, and shaped the aesthetics of a whole generation of viewers by providing new ways of looking at movies."--Emanuel Levy, author of George Cukor, Master of Elegance

The auteur theory, of which film critic Andrew Sarris was the leading American proponent, holds that artistry in cinema can be largely attributed to film directors, who, while often working against the strictures of studios, producers, and scriptwriters, manage to infuse each film in their oeuvre with their personal style. Sarris's The American Cinema, the bible of auteur studies, is a history of American film in the form of a lively guide to the work of two hundred film directors, from Griffith, Chaplin, and von Sternberg to Mike Nichols, Stanley Kubrick, and Jerry Lewis. In addition, the book includes a chronology of the most important American films, an alphabetical list of over 6000 films with their directors and years of release, and the seminal essays "Toward a Theory of Film History" and "The Auteur Theory Revisited." Over twenty-five years after its initial publication, The American Cinema remains perhaps the most influential book ever written on the subject.



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The Week, Kenneth Turan's "The Book List," 7/4/14
"There is no overestimating the impact critic Andrew Sarris had on serious filmgoers...This book is an essential work of film criticism."



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Andrew Sarris is film critic for the New York Observer and professor of cinema at Columbia University. He is a member of the National Society of Film Critics and the New York Film Critics Circle. Mr. Sarris has been the film critic for the Village Voice, editor-in-chief of Cahiers du Cinema in English, and an associate editor of Film Culture. He is the author of The Films of Josef von Sternberg, Interviews with Film Directors, The Film, Confessions of a Cultist, The Primal Screen, The John Ford Movie Mystery, and Politics and Cinema.
Dimensions (Overall): 8.01 Inches (H) x 5.43 Inches (W) x .83 Inches (D)
Weight: .94 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 392
Genre: Biography + Autobiography
Sub-Genre: General
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Format: Paperback
Author: Andrew Sarris
Language: English
Street Date: August 22, 1996
TCIN: 81451319
UPC: 9780306807282
Item Number (DPCI): 247-05-9407
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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