One of America's foremost film critics, Pauline Kael (June 19, 1919 – September 3, 2001) was an American film critic who wrote for The New Yorker from 1968 to 1991 and among other accolades, won a National Book Award in 1974 for Deeper into Movies. She has been credited with reinventing the art of film criticism.
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Film writings from 1972-1975, by Pauline Kael, the only film critic ever to have won the US National Book Award in Arts and Letters. The collection includes the long, prophetic, analytic essay 'On the Future of Movies' that proved contentious in its criticism of the Hollywood system, which Kael thou... Read more
Published: 1977
Pages: 512
Paperback: 9780714525822
Film writings from 1972-1975, by Pauline Kael, the only film critic ever to have won the US National Book Award in Arts and Letters. The collection includes the long, prophetic, analytic essay 'On the Future of Movies' that proved contentious in its criticism of the Hollywood system, which Kael thought debased its audience and ignored its artists. The seventy-four pieces in this book make clear how rich this period was in the history of the cinema.