Archive for the 'Agee' Category
James Agee: All there and primed to go off
Monsieur Verdoux (1947).
The original entry at this URL, published 23 February 2014, has been removed. Revised and expanded, it forms a chapter in the book The Rhapsodes: How 1940s Critics Changed American Film Culture, to be published by the University of Chicago Press in spring 2016.
I explain the development of the book in this entry.
You can find more information on the book here and here.
Thank you for your interest!
Agee & Co.: A Newer Criticism
Saul Steinberg, “Lowbrow, Middlebrow, Highbrow”; Harper’s Magazine, February 1949.
The original entry at this URL, published 9 February 2014, has been removed. Revised and expanded, it forms a chapter in the book The Rhapsodes: How 1940s Critics Changed American Film Culture, to be published by the University of Chicago Press in spring 2016.
I explain the development of the book in this entry.
You can find more information on the book here and here.
Thank you for your interest!
The Rhapsodes: Agee, Farber, Tyler, and us
James Agee, Manny Farber, and Parker Tyler.
I discuss the development of the book in this entry.
You can find more information on the book here and here.
Thank you for your interest!
