Andrew Sarris
Most famous for his 1962 essay "Notes on the Auteur theory" which popularized this film criticism technique in America. He wrote for the Village Voice criticing films and literature before bringing the Auteur theory from France to America and employing it in analysis of Hitchcock's film Psycho. He wrote for The New York Observer until 2009 and was a professor at his alma mater, Columbia University where he taught courses on Internationl Film, Hitchcock, and American Cinema. Trivia: The evil overlord from Galaxy Quest was named after him!
14 Books Written
An appreciative essay on Ford's evolving use of technology in cinema.
" The American Cinema is the Citizen Kane of film criticism, a brilliant book that elevated American directors from craftsmen to artists, launched the careers of numerous film critics, and shaped the aesthetics of a whole generation of viewers by providing new ways of looking at movies."--Emanuel Levy, author of George Cukor, Master of EleganceThe auteur theory, of which film critic An
This book offers a chronicle of the cinema in one of the liveliest periods in its history by one of its liveliest interpreters who is the witty, iconoclastic critic of The Village Voice.
The Primal Andrew The Primal Simon & FIRST First Edition, First Printing. Not price-clipped. Published by Simon and Schuster, 1973. Octavo. Hardcover. Signed and inscribed on flyleaf. Book is very good. Dust jacket is very good with shelf/edgewear and small tear to front cover bottom left corner. A nice, signed copy of this important collection of writings on film. 100% positive feedback. 30 d
"You Ain't Heard Nothin' Yet": The American Talking Film: History and Memory 1927-1949
by Andrew Sarris
Rating: 3.9 ⭐
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 o
Includes index. Very clean and tight. 6 1/4" x 9 1/4". No marks. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. All edges are clean. NOT ex-library. All books offered from DSB are stocked at our store in Fayetteville, AR. Shipped Under 1 kilogram. Film, Radio & Television; 0231040342. ISBN/ 9780231040341. Inventory 025271.
Interviews With Film Directors: Candid Conversations on the Art of Film with Forty key Film-makers
by Andrew Sarris
Rating: 3.9 ⭐
This is a fundamental compilation made for one of the most lucid, smart and brilliant cinema critics. He offers brief but dense interviews with the most prominent directors of those ages. His penetrating vision and sharp intelligence allows us to know some interiorities, unknown anecdotes and even revealing statements. Kurosawa, Buñuel, Fellini, Welles, Bresson, Ford, Hawks, Losey, Pasolini, Bergm
A look at the film director's eighteen films., many starring Marlene Dietrich. Issued in conjunction with a retrospective of his work at the MOMA.
THE FILM
by Andrew Sarris
History of the Cannes Film Festival, 1946-1979
by Andrew Sarris
From Stage & Screen: From the Museum of Television and Radio Series; Perspectives on the Collection
by Andrew Sarris
27 pages of images and commentaries on some of the contributions radio and television have made to the history of great performances by the twentieth century's most talented actors.
Confessions of a Cultist: On the Cinema, 1955-1969
by Andrew Sarris
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by Andrew Sarris
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