by Sterritt, David
Book / 2005
TitleGuiltless pleasures : a David Sterritt film reader
Item typeBook
Author(s)Sterritt, David
Edition1st ed
ImprintJackson University Press of Mississippi, 2005
ISBN
  • 1578067804
  • 1578068185
LanguageEnglish
URLLink to original record
Notes
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
  • 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.
  • Pacific Film Archive collection; non-circulating. CUY.
Physical descriptionxxxi, 281 p. ; 24 cm.
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2005
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Sterritt, David
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