{"product_id":"film-after-film-isbn-9781781681435","title":"Film After Film","description":"One of the world’s most erudite and entertaining film critics on the state of cinema in the post-digital—and post-9\/11—age. This witty and allusive book, in the style of classic film theorists\/critics like André Bazin and Siegfried Kracauer, includes considerations of global cinema’s most important figures and films, from Lars von Trier and Zia Jiangke to \u003ci\u003eWALL-E\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAvatar\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eInception\u003c\/i\u003e.\"Elegiac and anxious, critical and poetic, \u003ci\u003eFilm After Film\u003c\/i\u003e surveys the current seismic shifts in movies and considers their effect on the cinematic imagination ... [Hoberman's] prose shines without qualification, and the selections remind us that his tenure at the Voice was, simply put, one of the greatest ever by an American film critic, influencing as it did an entire generation of writers.\"—\u003ci\u003eBookforum\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A brilliant, patchwork statement about the future of the cinema—spoiler alert: there is a future—in the face of reports of its imminent demise...Hoberman’s book is a broadly accessible errand in the articulation of how we might imagine digital cinema to reflect twenty-first century culture.\"—\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Spirited, thought-provoking and popping with fresh perspectives.\"—\u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[\u003ci\u003eFilm After Film\u003c\/i\u003e] does what Hoberman does best: use movies and movie culture as a prism for understanding political events—and vice versa.\"—\u003ci\u003eFilm Comment\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  “J. Hoberman is probably the most acute political analyst of cinema among \u003cbr\u003e the medium’s regular commentators. You won’t find a closer reading of how films made in the first decade or so of the twenty-first century intermeshed with the issues of their day than this volume.” Nick James, \u003ci\u003eSight and Sound\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “Hoberman wittily traces the interlocking of political reality and moviemaking fantasies, to often disturbing effect.” \u003ci\u003eFinancial Times \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “A dense, fascinating assemblage … by turns jocular and brilliantly reflective.” \u003ci\u003eCineaste\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eJ. Hoberman\u003c\/b\u003e was the senior film critic at the\u003ci\u003e Village Voice\u003c\/i\u003e from 1988 to 2012. He has taught at Harvard, NYU and Cooper Union, and is the author of ten books, including \u003ci\u003eBridge of Light\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Red Atlantis\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Dream Life\u003c\/i\u003e and\u003ci\u003e An Army of Phantoms\u003c\/i\u003e.How the digital turn and 9\/11 have changed motion picture history","brand":"Verso","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46304197771493,"sku":"NP9781781681435","price":26.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781781681435.jpg?v=1767726860","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/film-after-film-isbn-9781781681435","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}