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selected writings of Pauline Kael

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Library of America
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English
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Table of Contents

Introduction / Sanford Schwartz
Movies, the Desperate Art
from I Lost it at the Movies. The Glamour of Delinquency ; The Golden Coach ; Shoeshine ; Breathless, and the Daisy Miller Doll ; West Side Story ; Lolita ; Jules and Jim ; Billy Budd ; Yojimbo ; Devi ; Hud, Deep in the Divided Heart of Hollywood
from Kiss Kiss Bang Bang. Laurence Olivier as Othello ; Marlon Brando: An American Hero ; Movie Brutalists ; Tourist in the City of Youth [Blow-up] ; Movies on Television ; Orson Welles: There Ain't No Way [Falstaff / Chimes at Midnight] ; Bonnie and Clyde
from Going Steady. Movies as Opera [China Is Near] ; A Minority Movie [La Chinoise] ; Faces ; A Sign of Life [Shame] ; Trash, Art, and the Movies ; Saintliness [Simon of the Desert]
from Deeper into Movies. The Bottom of the Pit [Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid] ; High School ; Fellini's "Mondo Trasho" [Fellini Satyricon] ; Notes on Heart and Mind ; The Poetry of Images [The Conformist] ; Pipe Dream [McCabe & Mrs. Miller] ; Helen of Troy, Sexual Warrior [The Trojan Women] ; Louis Malle's Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog [Murmur of the Heart] ; Urban Gothic [The French Connection] ; The Fall and Rise of Vittorio De Sica [The Garden of the Finzi-Continis] ; Stanley Strangelove [A Clockwork Orange] ; Alchemy [The Godfather] ; Collaboration and Resistance [The Sorrow and the Pity]
from Reeling. Tango [Last Tango in Paris] ; Pop Versus Jazz [Lady Sings the Blues] ; The Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers Book ; Days and Nights in the Forest ; A Rip-Off with Genius [Marilyn] ; After Innocence [The Last American Hero] ; Everyday Inferno [Mean Streets] ; Movieland
The Bums' Paradise [The Long Goodbye] ; Moments of Truth [The Iceman Cometh] ; Politics and Thrills ; Survivor [Sleeper] ; Killing Time [Magnum Force] ; Cicely Tyson Goes to the Fountain [The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman] ; The Used Madonna [The Mother and the Whore] ; When the Saints Come Marching In [Lenny] ; Fathers and Sons [The Godfather, Part II] ; Beverly Hills as a Big Bed [Shampoo] ; Coming: Nashville
from When the Lights Go Down. The Man from Dream City [Cary Grant] ; All for Love [The Story of Adèle H.] ; Walking into Your Childhood [The Magic Flute] ; Notes on the Nihilist Poetry of Sam Peckinpah [The Killer Elite] ; The Artist as a Young Comedian [Next Stop, Greenwich Village] ; Underground Man [Taxi Driver] ; Sparkle ; Notes on Evolving Heroes, Morals, Audiences ; Hot Air [Network] ; Marguerite Duras [The Truck] ; A Woman for All Seasons? [Julia] ; Shivers [The Fury] ; Fear of Movies ; Bertrand Blier ; The God-Bless-America Symphony [The Deer Hunter] ; Pods [Invasion of the Body Snatchers]
from Taking It All In. Why Are Movies So Bad? or, The Numbers ; The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith ; The Man Who Made Howard Hughes Sing [Melvin and Howard] ; Used Cars ; Religious Pulp, or The Incredible Hulk [Raging Bull] ; Atlantic City ; Hey, Torquemada [History of the World, Part I] ; Portrait of the Artist as a Young Gadgeteer [Blow Out] ; Pennies from Heaven ; Shoot the Moon ; Richard Pryor Live on the Sunset Strip ; E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial ; Up the River [Fitzcarraldo, Burden of Dreams] ; Tootsie ; Memory [The Night of the Shooting Stars]
from State of the Art. A Masterpiece [The Leopard] ; The Perfectionist [Yentl] ; Golden Kimonos [The Makioka Sisters]
from Hooked. Out There and In Here [Blue Velvet] ; Irish Voices [The Dead] ; The Lady from the Sea [High Tide]
from Movie Love. Unreal [Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown] ; A Wounded Apparition [Casualties of War] ; Satyr [My Left Foot] ; The Grifters.

Edition Notes

Includes index.

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Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
791.43/75
Library of Congress
PN1995 .K195 2011, PN1995 .K192 2011

The Physical Object

Pagination
xxiv, 828 p. :
Number of pages
828

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OL25236908M
Internet Archive
ageofmoviesselec0000kael
ISBN 10
1598531093
ISBN 13
9781598531091
LCCN
2011923053
OCLC/WorldCat
701019599

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