Abstract: Film criticism -- Biography This collection of interviews with Stanley (b. 1916) provides a virtual history of journalistic practice of criticism in twentieth-century America. His creative life spans seven decades, and since 1958, he has been a film and drama critic for Republic, York Times, and Saturday Review. He also has been an actor, stage manager, playwright, novelist, and editor. Along with Dwight Macdonald, Andrew Sarris, and John Simon, he is of potent, influential critics included in New York school of twentieth-century American The Los Angeles Times called him the Dean Swift of our country's criticism. Susan Sontag proclaimed him one of our national treasures. In this collection of interviews conducted by Charlie Rose, Dick Cavett, and others he speaks both of role of theater and film criticism in American culture and of crisis he perceives within it. With wit and erudition discusses many subjects-film directors who emerged during his long tenure at Republic (e.g., Martin Scorsese and Federico Fellini), actors who performed on both stage and screen, novels and their film adaptations, and fractious relationship between Hollywood and independent film movement. The precision and concise phrasing of Kauffmann's writing chime also in his brilliant conversations as he speaks of sex, taste, realism, rise of film festival culture, and government subsidy of arts. The volume ends with a conversation from 1998 in celebration of Kauffmann's forty-year tenure at Republic, where he continues to publish film reviews every week. The collection reveals this critic's sense of cultural mission by showing how applies to drama and film same high standards he applies to fiction, poetry, music, and theater. Conversations with Stanley Kauffmann reveals that this love of arts is expressed in his finely honed gift for cogent, witty, wise commentary. Bert Cardullo, a professor of theater and drama at University of Michigan, has written and edited several books on film and theater and has been published in Hudson Review, Republic, Literature / Film Quarterly, South Atlantic Quarterly, and other publications.
Publication Year: 2003
Publication Date: 2003-01-01
Language: en
Type: book
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