"You Ain't Heard Nothin' Yet"

ISBN-13: 9780195134261 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 592 str.

Andrew Sarris

Opis

Andrew Sarris has long been one of America's most celebrated writers on film, author of the seminal work The American Cinema, and for decades a highly regarded critic, first for The Village Voice and more recently for The New York Observer. Now comes Sarris's definitive statement on film, in a masterwork that has taken 25 years to complete. Here is a sweeping--and highly personal--history of American film, from the birth of the talkies (beginning with The Jazz Singer and Al Jolson's memorable line "You ain't heard nothin' yet") to the decline of the studio system. By far the largest section of the book celebrates the work of the great American film directors, with giants such as John Ford, Alfred Hitchcock, Charlie Chaplin, Orson Welles, and Howard Hawks examined film by film. Sarris also offers glowing portraits of major stars, from Garbo and Bogart to Ingrid Bergman, Margaret Sullavan, Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Clark Gable, and Carole Lombard. There is a tour of the studios--Metro, Paramount, RKO, Warner Brothers, 20th Century Fox, Universal--revealing how each left its own particular stamp on film. And in perhaps the most interesting and original section, we are treated to an informative look at film genres--the musical, the screwball comedy, the horror picture, the gangster film, and the western. A lifetime of watching and thinking about cinema has gone into this book. It is the history that film buffs have been waiting for.

Andrew Sarris has long been one of America's most celebrated writers on film. In this new masterwork he offers a sweeping -- and highly personal -- history of American film, from the birth of the talkies to the decline of the studio system. Celebrating the work of the great American film directors, offering glowing portraits of major stars, and revealing how each of the studios left its own particular stamp on film, this book represents Sarris's definitive statement on the Hollywood film. Including a fascinating look at film genres -- the musical, the screwball comedy, the horror picture, the gangster film, and the western -- this book will be recognized as the basic history of American film in the Hollywood studio period.

Recenzje

This book I cannot put down. It is informative, controversial, exciting. Andrew Sarris leads the way in the field of American cinema. He makes you rediscover films you already knew and, best of all, guides you to new discoveries in the treasure trove of the movies' Golden Age. I continue to admire his unique vision.

O autorze

Andrew Sarris is film critic for The New York Observer and was for 29 years the critic for The Village Voice. The author of the seminal The American Cinema, he teaches at Columbia University and lives in New York City.