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Action!: Interviews With Directors from Classical Hollywood to Contemporary Iran

Product Description: âAction!â presents nineteen outstanding interviews with directors past and present, from around the world, working in a variety of genres, budgets and production environments from major studios to indie and DIY. The result is a vibrant group portrait of the filmmaking art, a kind of festival in words that explores everything from the enormous creative and personal satisfactions to the challenges and frustrations of the process...read more

By Gary Morris (editor) and Jonathan Rosenbaum (foreword by)

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9781843313120 | Anthem Pr, February 1, 2009, cover price $115.00 | About this edition: âAction!

Essential Cinema: On the Necessity of Film Canons

Product Description: In his astute and deeply informed film reviews and essays, Jonathan Rosenbaum regularly provides new and brilliant insights into the cinema as art, entertainment, and commerce. Guided by a personal canon of great films, Rosenbaum sees, in the ongoing hostility toward the idea of a canon shared by many within the field of film studies, a missed opportunity both to shape the discussion about cinema and to help inform and guide casual and serious filmgoers alike...read more

By Jonathan Rosenbaum

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9780801878404 | Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, March 30, 2004, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: Argues for a canon of film that is not exclusively Western and goes beyond purely aesthetic considerations.

Paperback:

9780801889714 | Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, June 30, 2008, cover price $27.00 | About this edition: In his astute and deeply informed film reviews and essays, Jonathan Rosenbaum regularly provides new and brilliant insights into the cinema as art, entertainment, and commerce.

Discovering Orson Welles

Product Description: Of the dozens of books written about Orson Welles, most focus on the central enigma of Welles's career: why did someone so extravagantly talented neglect to finish so many projects? Film critic Jonathan Rosenbaum has long believed that to dwell on this aspect of the Welles canon is to overlook the wealth of information available by studying the unrealized works...read more

By Jonathan Rosenbaum

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9780520247383 | 1 edition (Univ of California Pr, May 7, 2007), cover price $85.00 | About this edition: Of the dozens of books written about Orson Welles, most focus on the central enigma of Welles's career: why did someone so extravagantly talented neglect to finish so many projects?

Paperback:

9780520251236 | 1 edition (Univ of California Pr, May 7, 2007), cover price $34.95

The Medieval Hero on Screen: Representations from Beowulf to Buffy

By Martha W. Driver (editor), Sid Ray (editor) and Jonathan Rosenbaum (foreword by)

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9780786419265 | McFarland & Co Inc Pub, July 1, 2004, cover price $29.95

Movie Mutations: The Changing Face of World Cinephilia

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By Adrian Martin (editor) and Jonathan Rosenbaum (editor)

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Hardcover:

9780851709833 | British Film Inst, December 4, 2003, cover price $110.00

Paperback:

9780851709840 | British Film Inst, December 2, 2003, cover price $28.95

Abbas Kiarostami

Penetrating study of the Iranian filmmaker Kiarostami's life and work

By Jonathan Rosenbaum and Mehrnaz Saeed-Vafa

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9780252028144 | Univ of Illinois Pr, April 1, 2003, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Penetrating study of the Iranian filmmaker Kiarostami's life and work

Paperback:

9780252071119 | Univ of Illinois Pr, April 1, 2003, cover price $24.00

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

By Jonathan Rosenbaum

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9781903364604 | New edition (Gardners Books, September 10, 2002), cover price $26.30

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

Product Description: Is the cinema, as writers from David Denby to Susan Sontag have claimed, really dead? Contrary to what we have been led to believe, films are better than everÂwe just canât see the good ones. Movie Wars cogently explains how movies are packaged, distributed, and promoted, and how, at every stage of the process, the potential moviegoer is treated with contempt...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Jonathan Rosenbaum

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9781556524547 | Chicago Review Pr, July 1, 2002, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Is the cinema, as writers from David Denby to Susan Sontag have claimed, really dead?

Miscellaneous:

9781556529924 | Independent Pub Group, July 1, 2002, cover price $13.95

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

Product Description: Is the cinema, as writers from David Denby to Susan Sontag have claimed, really dead? Contrary to what we have been led to believe, films are better than everâwe just canât see the good ones. Movie Wars cogently explains how movies are packaged, distributed, and promoted, and how, at every stage of the process, the potential moviegoer is treated with contempt...read more

By Jonathan Rosenbaum

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9781556524066 | Chicago Review Pr, November 1, 2000, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: Is the cinema, as writers from David Denby to Susan Sontag have claimed, really dead?

Dead Man

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By Jonathan Rosenbaum

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9780851708065 | British Film Inst, August 26, 2000, cover price $18.95

Movies As Politics

Product Description: In this new collection of reviews and essays, Jonathan Rosenbaum focuses on the political and social dynamics of the contemporary movie scene. Rosenbaum, widely regarded as the most gifted contemporary American commentator on the cinema, explores the many links between film and our ideological identities as individuals and as a society...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Jonathan Rosenbaum

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9780520206144 | Univ of California Pr, June 1, 1997, cover price $85.00 | About this edition: In this new collection of reviews and essays, Jonathan Rosenbaum focuses on the political and social dynamics of the contemporary movie scene.

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9780520206151 | Univ of California Pr, June 1, 1997, cover price $31.95

Moving Places: A Life at the Movies

Product Description: Moving Places is the brilliant account of a life steeped in and shaped by the moviesâpart autobiography, part film analysis, part social history. Jonathan Rosenbaum, one of America's most gifted film critics, began his moviegoing in the 1950s in small-town Alabama, where his family owned and managed a chain of theaters...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Jonathan Rosenbaum

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9780520089075 | Reprint edition (Univ of California Pr, May 1, 1995), cover price $31.95 | About this edition: Moving Places is the brilliant account of a life steeped in and shaped by the moviesâpart autobiography, part film analysis, part social history.

Placing Movies: The Practice of Film Criticism

Product Description: Jonathan Rosenbaum, longtime contributor to such publications as Film Quarterly, Sight and Sound, and The Village Voice, is arguably the most eloquent, insightful film critic writing in America today. Placing Movies, the first collection of his work, gathers together thirty of his most distinctive and illuminating pieces...read more

By Jonathan Rosenbaum

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9780520086326 | Univ of California Pr, May 1, 1995, cover price $85.00 | About this edition: Jonathan Rosenbaum, longtime contributor to such publications as Film Quarterly, Sight and Sound, and The Village Voice, is arguably the most eloquent, insightful film critic writing in America today.

Paperback:

9780520086333 | Univ of California Pr on Demand, May 1, 1995, cover price $33.95

Greed

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By Jonathan Rosenbaum

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9780851703589 | British Film Inst, June 26, 1993, cover price $18.95

Midnight Movies

Product Description: These are a few of the over 100 films discussed in Midnight Movies, a comprehensive and in-depth look at the subculture movies of the past three decades. Here is the complete history of cult films, their makers, and their audience; an examination of how films become "midnight movies," and what keeps audiences coming back to see them over and over; an exploration of the connections between subversive film and the subcultures from which it emerges...read more

By J. Hoberman and Jonathan Rosenbaum

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9780306804335 | Reprint edition (Perseus Books, April 1, 1991), cover price $18.50 | About this edition: These are a few of the over 100 films discussed in Midnight Movies, a comprehensive and in-depth look at the subculture movies of the past three decades.

Film: The Front Line 1983

Product Description: The Film : The Front Line volumes treat approximately 20 filmmakers who are changing the shape of the movies shown in our neighborhood theaters, though their work will likely never be seen there. Jonathan Rosenbaum makes accessible the work of such neglected experimental and personal filmmakers as Chantal Akerman, Jon Jost, Ulrike Ottinger, Yvonne Rainer, and Mark Rappaport...read more

By Jonathan Rosenbaum

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9780912869032 | Arden Pr, October 1, 1983, cover price $10.95 | About this edition: The Film : The Front Line volumes treat approximately 20 filmmakers who are changing the shape of the movies shown in our neighborhood theaters, though their work will likely never be seen there.

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