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Goodbye Cinema, Hello Cinephilia: Film Culture in Transition

Goodbye Cinema, Hello Cinephilia: Film Culture in Transition

Jonathan Rosenbaum - Performing Arts - 2010 - 391 pages
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 ...
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Movie Wars: How Hollywood and the Media Limit What Films We Can See

Movie Wars: How Hollywood and the Media Limit What Films We Can See

Jonathan Rosenbaum - Motion pictures - 2002 - 234 pages
Contrary to what a number of disillusioned critics have written and what appears to be the pervading conventional wisdom, Jonathan Rosenbaum believes that cinema is very much ...
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Placing movies: the practice of film criticism

Placing movies: the practice of film criticism

Jonathan Rosenbaum - Performing Arts - 1995 - 337 pages
"Once or twice a generation a film critic comes along who expands or even redefines how we talk about the medium. Jonathan Rosenbaum is one of these figures."--Alan Williams ...
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Movies As Politics

Movies As Politics

Jonathan Rosenbaum - Performing Arts - 1997 - 359 pages
Overall look at world cinema and examination of the market forces that shape films. Politicized observations, viewing films as products of ideological decisions.
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Moving places: a life at the movies
Discovering Orson Welles: Jonathan Rosenbaum

Discovering Orson Welles: Jonathan Rosenbaum

Jonathan Rosenbaum - Performing Arts - 2007 - 336 pages
'Discovering Orson Welles' collects Rosenbaum's writings to date on Welles and makes an irrefutable case for the seriousness of his work, illuminating both Welles the artist ...
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Movie mutations: the changing face of world cinephilia

Movie mutations: the changing face of world cinephilia

Jonathan Rosenbaum, Adrian Martin - Performing Arts - 2003 - 196 pages
Series of dialogues and meditations on the state of contemporary world cinema.
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Midnight Movies
Greed

Greed

Jonathan Rosenbaum - Performing Arts - 1993 - 64 pages
Greed was to have been Erich von Stroheim's masterwork, but his immense plans were his undoing. This volume reconstructs the history of the film. Each volume in the BFI Film ...
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Abbas Kiarostami

Abbas Kiarostami

Jonathan Rosenbaum - Performing Arts - 2003 - 151 pages
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 ...
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