{"product_id":"american-movie-critics-an-anthology-from-the-silents-until-now-isbn-9781598530223","title":"American Movie Critics: An Anthology from the Silents Until Now","description":"An anthology of unparalleled scope, \u003ci\u003eAmerican Movie Critics\u003c\/i\u003e charts the rise of movies as art, industry, and mass entertainment. Here are the great movie critics who forged a forceful new vernacular idiom for talking about the new art,—Otis Ferguson, James Agee, Richard Schickel, Pauline Kael, Andrew Sarris, and Molly Haskell, among them. Here too are notable American writers, including Carl Sandburg, H. L. Mencken, Susan Sontag, and John Ashbery, weighing in on a range of cinematic experiences. The volume's narrative continues to the present with a sampling of the best of today's reviewers, including J. Hoberman, Roger Ebert, A. O. Scott, and Manohla Dargis. This paperback edition includes additional material reflecting the impact of the Internet and DVDs on film criticism.\u003cb\u003ePhillip Lopate\u003c\/b\u003e, editor, is an essayist, novelist, and poet, whose books include \u003ci\u003eBachelorhood; Against Joie de Vivre; Portrait of My Body;\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eWaterfront: A Journey Around Manhattan\u003c\/i\u003e. He has edited \u003ci\u003eThe Art of the Personal Essay\u003c\/i\u003e and, for The Library of America, \u003ci\u003eWriting New York: A Literary Anthology\u003c\/i\u003e. His selected film criticism appeared in \u003ci\u003eTotally Tenderly Tragically\u003c\/i\u003e, and he currently serves on the selection committee of the New York Film Festival.","brand":"Library of America","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46300381479141,"sku":"NP9781598530223","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781598530223.jpg?v=1767721428","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/american-movie-critics-an-anthology-from-the-silents-until-now-isbn-9781598530223","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}