{"product_id":"alexander-bakshy-on-film-1913-1935-paperback","title":"Alexander Bakshy on Film, 1913-1935 - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eR. J. Cardullo\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eAlexander Bakshy\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAlexander Bakshy (1885-1949)\u003c\/strong\u003e was the first movie critic for the \u003cem\u003eNation\u003c\/em\u003e (1927-33) as well as one of America's first full-time professional film critics. He was known during his lifetime for his prescience as he stood up for the future of sound cinema in 1929. Bakshy was thus one of the more progressive cultural critics of the years between the world wars, one who did his part in easing the movies toward acceptance as an art form. He was also an innovative theorist (again, one of America's first) who applied to cinema the discourse of self-reflexive modernism, prizing anti-illusionist medium-awareness. \u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eAlexander Bakshy on Film, 1913-1935\u003c\/em\u003e-the only such collection by Bakshy-the reader gets thoughtful commentary on such important films as Chaplin's \u003cem\u003eCity Lights\u003c\/em\u003e, Eisenstein's\u003cem\u003e Ten Days That Shook the World\u003c\/em\u003e, Dreyer's \u003cem\u003eThe Passion of Joan of Arc\u003c\/em\u003e, Clair's \u003cem\u003eSous les toits de Paris\u003c\/em\u003e, Pabst's \u003cem\u003eKameradschaft\u003c\/em\u003e, Kinugasa's \u003cem\u003eSlums of Tokyo\u003c\/em\u003e, Lubitsch's \u003cem\u003eTrouble in Paradise\u003c\/em\u003e, Dovzhenko's \u003cem\u003eEarth\u003c\/em\u003e, and Milestone's \u003cem\u003eAll Quiet on the Western Front\u003c\/em\u003e; and penetrating insight into such significant directors as Alfred Hitchcock, Frank Capra, Jean Renoir, F. W. Murnau, George Cukor, Vsevolod Pudovkin, and Howard Hawks. The reader is also treated, in \u003cem\u003eAlexander Bakshy on Film, 1913-1935\u003c\/em\u003e, to evidence of Bakshy's penchant for \"theoretizing\" in essays on film acting, experimental or art-house movie theaters, and sound vs. silent cinema. Indeed, this collection of film criticism is one of the few to embrace both the silent and sound periods (along with the black-and-white and color eras), and it is the only collection of film criticism by an early critic of the medium that embraces a fully modernist perspective. In \u003cem\u003eAlexander Bakshy on Film, 1913-1935\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003eBakshy's work thus finally receives some of the attention it deserves, attention heretofore reserved for other early American movie critics such as James Agee-who himself began writing reviews for the\u003cem\u003e Nation\u003c\/em\u003e in 1942. \u003cstrong\u003eR. J. Cardullo\u003c\/strong\u003e was the regular film critic for the \u003cem\u003eHudson Review\u003c\/em\u003e in New York City from 1987 to 2007; prior to and during the same period, he taught for four decades at the University of Michigan, Colgate, Wesleyan, and New York University. Cardullo is the author, editor, or translator of a number of books, including, for this press, \u003cem\u003eBruce Beresford on Film\u003c\/em\u003e (2022); \u003cem\u003eFilm Analysis: A Casebook \u003c\/em\u003e(John Wiley, 2015); \u003cem\u003eSoundings on Cinema: Speaking to Film and Film Artists\u003c\/em\u003e (SUNY Press, 2008); \u003cem\u003eIn Search of Cinema: Writings on International Film Art\u003c\/em\u003e (McGill-Queens UP, 2004); and \u003cem\u003eBazin at Work: Major Essays \u0026amp; Reviews from the '40s \u0026amp; '50s\u003c\/em\u003e (Routledge, 1997). Educated at Tulane and Yale, he now lives in Finland with his wife and \"Bertie\" the mixed terrier.\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 336\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 18, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53249648951603,"sku":"9798887711195","price":47.32,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/2FPJD4y8pO9798887711195.webp?v=1776329704","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/alexander-bakshy-on-film-1913-1935-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}