Negative Space: Manny Farber On The Movies3 reviews Manny Farber Da Capo Press, 1998 extraordinary + Combative and Original Farber found the best metaphor for his inclinations as well as his work: the termite, who burrows, chews, and undermines. Just as Thelonious Monk's solos softly undermine the themes on which they are constructed, so the bits of outrageous reality peeping into the Walsh films Farber so much ...             Complete Cinematic Works: Scripts, Stills, Documents1 review Guy Debord AK Press, 2005 Important Document Well Translated I have found Knabb's translations very readable and surprisingly articulate. But since I don't know french, I can't say. Comparing this collection with the other I have of the cinematic works, the improvement is noticable. Recomended translation of a highly recommended body of film scripts. Some of ...             Essays (Everyman's Library Classics & Contemporary Classics)20 reviews George Orwell Everyman's Library, 2002 A great teacher of writing and critical thinking + Political writing as art; all art is propaganda + A real treat + Beyond 1984 + The Ultimate Orwell Essay Resource             Godard/Spillane2 reviews John Zorn Tzadik, 1999 Helping me fully appreciate a contemporary great. The toughest barrier in appreciating John Zorn's music remains still the sheer quantity of work he's produced in such a short period of time. Most of it is further plagued with the pretense of "vol. XVII" or "plays the music of...," or any of various cryptically titled ensembles, making it very ...             The Crying of Lot Forty-Nine (Bantam Windstone Book) Thomas Pynchon Bantam Books, 1983             Kill All Your Darlings: Pieces, 1990-20052 reviews Sante Luc Yeti / Verse Chorus Press, 2007 A Garden of Delights + A collection of very good but disparate pieces This is a wonderful book. Literally. That is, it is full of wonders. At his not infrequent best -- in his essays on jazz and the blues -- Luc Sante reminds this reader of Edmund Wilson. Like Wilson, Sante is dogged and forensic. Without showing off, he tells you things you didn't know and puts you ...             Chronicles: Volume One (Chronicles)269 reviews Bob Dylan Simon & Schuster, 2005 Not a Tell-All But Definitely a Work of Art + Not like Writing Lyrics + Smoke gets in your eyes + Also waiting for Volume 2 + Waiting for Vol. 2...             I Lost it at the Movies2 reviews Pauline Kael Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd, 1994 Pauline Kael as a prophet of our multi-media age + For your permanent collection Pauline Kael was a prophet of the times: she knew that people would eventually be addicted to the movies. But she was perceptive enough to realize from the onset that this addiction went beyond the inescapable, because grippingly overwhelming, magic of storytelling. She understood that movies were ...             Born in Flames: Termite Dreams, Dialectical Fairy Tales, and Pop Apocalypses1 review Howard Hampton Harvard University Press, 2007 Screams out against lifelessness and the will to demean... Howard Hampton's "Born In Flames," is so vividly written, each sentence like a crazed aphorism on some bleak American-gothic apocalypse just this side of redemption-via-imagination, a creatural re-imagining beyond the blood darkness, effluvia, and debris of our times and ordinary lives. One could ...             Mystery Train: Images of America in Rock 'n' Roll: Fifth Edition25 reviews Greil Marcus Plume, 2008 Rock and Roll Poetry This book is an amazing look into the history and impact of rock and roll on pop culture. Greil Marcus writes about this artists and songs as a poet who has been deeply affected by this music. The lyrics seem to impact the very roots of his soul and diversly shape his world and view of America. ...             Situationist International Anthology4 reviews Bureau Of Public Secrets, 2007 Essential + Necessary + Good selection, but not necessary + Catalyst             The Nick Tosches Reader7 reviews Nick Tosches Da Capo Press, 2000 In the hand of Tosches + A writers writers writers writers livers writers life + Good Overview of a Great Writer + Newark             The New Biographical Dictionary of Film: Expanded and Updated40 reviews David Thomson Knopf, 2004 For Movie Buffs + The Big Book of Film I recommend this book for all serious movie fans. It's a great reference containing brief biographies and film credits of most of the notable actors, directors, and producers from the silent era to the present. It also includes critical commentary on the people and films mentioned. Unlike most ...             Reading the Funnies : Looking at Great Cartoonists Throughout the First Half of the 20th Century Donald Phelps Fantagraphics Books, 2001 The comic strip has been a staple of American newspapers for nearly a century. It is a creation unique to cultural life and, in addition to entertainment, has commented on the way we see and view ourselves. From its high culture influence on Pop Art to its low culture appeal to children of all ages, the comic strip has had a lasting hold on the imaginations of generations. Noted writer Donald ...             The Sadeian Woman: An Exercise in Cultural History Angela Carter Virago UK, 2006 "Sexuality is power," wrote the Marquis de Sade. His virtuous Justine kept to the rules laid down by men, her reward rape and humiliation; his Juliette, Justine's triumphantly monstrous antithesis, viciously exploited her sexuality. This is a world where all tenderness is false, and all beds are minefields. But now Sade has met his match. With invention and genius, celebrated novelist Angela ...             Love and Death in the American Novel1 review Leslie A. Fiedler Dalkey Archive Press, 1998 INDISPENSABLE FOR ANY STUDENT OF AMERICAN LITERATURE How quickly Americans forget. No one covers American literature with more knowledge, humor, insight and depth. This work is an American classic like the classics he covers: Moby Dick, Huckleberry Finn & The Scarlet Letter. I don't know how you get through graduate school without reading this ...             Exile Cinema: Filmmakers at Work Beyond Hollywood (S U N Y Series, Horizons of Cinema) State University of New York Press, 2008 Offers a cross section of international fringe cinema.             Physical Evidence: Selected Film Criticism (Wesleyan Film) Kent Jones Wesleyan, 2007 An expert writer and thinker on movie history and directorial style, Kent Jones is among the most notable film critics of his generation. His sharp, informed analyses and cogent assessments of cinema and its practitioners have made him a significant voice both in America and internationally. Jones' inaugural collection brings together the best of his reviews (on films including In the Mood for ...             The Phantom Empire: Movies in the Mind of the Twentieth Century6 reviews Geoffrey O'Brien W. W. Norton & Company, 1995 It's a cinemascope blockbuster in a book! + Courtesy of the greatest living writer of English prose + Exceptional + READ THIS BOOK             Wim Wenders: On Film: Essays and Conversations Wenders Wim Faber & Faber, 2001 A volume that combines three influential works on the cinema by Wim Wenders, one of the major international filmmakers of our time Wim Wenders's body of work is among the most extraordinary in modern cinema. It includes such films as Paris, Texas ; Wings of Desire ; Buena Vista Social Club ; and The Million Dollar Hotel . Fortunately, his passion for cinema also extends to writing about it, ...