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The Rhapsodes: How 1940s Critics Changed American Film Culture

The Rhapsodes: How 1940s Critics Changed American Film Culture

by David Bordwell (Author)

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Format: Illustrated
 Pages: 182
 Edition: Illustrated
 Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 04 Apr 2016
ISBN 10: 022635220X
ISBN 13: 9780226352206

Media Reviews
If you have a driving or even just a drive-by interest in arts criticism, film writing and the love we share for all kinds of movies, The Rhapsodes is a swift, terrific read. --Michael Phillips Chicago Tribune (04/26/2016)
The primary pleasure of this book comes from Bordwell s appreciation of the originality of these writers, the way each of them constructed a distinctive prose whose mixing of unlike elements calls to mind that homemade world that the critic Hugh Kenner discerned in the poetry of William Carlos Williams and Wallace Stevens. There is real enthusiasm, and valuable guidance, in Bordwell s tour, as he plucks out particularly lively or audacious passages. He walks us through the literature with an admirably light step, pointing out highlights and connecting dots, and, as he goes, filling in some of the background of the 1940s intellectual milieu in which these men worked. . . . The Rhapsodes elicits an awareness of just how much expressive energy was pouring out on the movie screens of America in pictures that many continued to regard as disposable time killers. --Geoffrey O'Brien Artforum (05/02/2016)
While each of the subjects of The Rhapsodes has come in for their appreciation in turn at one time or another, Bordwell s unique accomplishment is to situate them within the larger context of American arts journalism. . . . As one reasonably well-acquainted with all of Bordwell s Rhapsodes, much information here was new to me. . . . There are also Bordwell s typically lucid close reads of each writer s idiosyncratic style. . . . This slim volume is worth an even dozen critic memoirs and in recounting Ferguson s call to arms for a film criticism worthy of its subject, it sounds a reveille of its own. --Nick Pinkerton Sight & Sound (05/02/2016)
If you have a driving or even just a drive-by interest in arts criticism, film writing and the love we share for all kinds of movies, The Rhapsodes is a swift, terrific read. --Michael Phillips Chicago Tribune (04/26/2016)
The primary pleasure of this book comes from Bordwell's appreciation of the originality of these writers, the way each of them constructed a distinctive prose whose mixing of unlike elements calls to mind that homemade world that the critic Hugh Kenner discerned in the poetry of William Carlos Williams and Wallace Stevens. There is real enthusiasm, and valuable guidance, in Bordwell's tour, as he plucks out particularly lively or audacious passages. He walks us through the literature with an admirably light step, pointing out highlights and connecting dots, and, as he goes, filling in some of the background of the 1940s intellectual milieu in which these men worked. . . . The Rhapsodes elicits an awareness of just how much expressive energy was pouring out on the movie screens of America in pictures that many continued to regard as disposable time killers. --Geoffrey O'Brien Artforum (05/02/2016)
While each of the subjects of The Rhapsodes has come in for their appreciation in turn at one time or another, Bordwell's unique accomplishment is to situate them within the larger context of American arts journalism. . . . As one reasonably well-acquainted with all of Bordwell's Rhapsodes, much information here was new to me. . . . There are also Bordwell's typically lucid close reads of each writer's idiosyncratic style. . . . This slim volume is worth an even dozen critic memoirs--and in recounting Ferguson's call to arms for a film criticism worthy of its subject, it sounds a reveille of its own. --Nick Pinkerton Sight & Sound (05/02/2016)
Author Bio
David Bordwell is the Jacques Ledoux Professor of Film Studies Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. With Kristin Thompson, he is coauthor of Film Art: An Introduction and Film History: An Introduction and the blog Observations on Film Art, which can be found at http: //www.davidbordwell.net/blog.