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The Essential Raymond Durgnat Henry K. Miller

The Essential Raymond Durgnat By Henry K. Miller

The Essential Raymond Durgnat by Henry K. Miller

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Raymond Durgnat (1932-2002) was one of the best-regarded film critics of his time. A maverick voice in the golden age of film culture, his work appeared in every significant film publication in Britain and the USA. Thoroughly introduced and annotated, this career-spanning collection brings together his essential writing for the very first time.

The Essential Raymond Durgnat Summary

The Essential Raymond Durgnat by Henry K. Miller

Raymond durgnat was a maverick voice during the golden age of film criticism. From the French new Wave and the rise of auteurism, through the late 1960s counter-culture, to the rejuvenated Hollywood of the 1970s, his work appeared in dozens of publications in Britain, France and the USA.

At once evoking the film culture of his own times and anticipating our digital age in which technology allows everyone to create their own 'moving image-text combos', durgnat's writings touch on crucial questions in film criticism that resonate more than ever today.

Bringing together durgnat's essential writing for the very first time, this career-spanning collection includes previously unpublished and untranslated work and is thoroughly introduced and annotated by Henry K. Miller.

The Essential Raymond Durgnat Reviews

Cutting to the chase, this is the most welcome film book of the year - and one of the most fascinating... If anything can bring back long, hard looks at movies, this will.' - Sight and Sound 'Now, 12 years after this great critic's death at the age of 69, we finally have this superbly edited volume, encompassing previously uncollected pieces from 1963 to 1992. It furnishes a richer sense of his wide-ranging career and what made his writing about movies so generative and freewheeling, mixing realist and surrealist critical inclinations, plainspoken yet restlessly insightful.' - Film Comment 'The essential film book of this or almost any year' - Film Krant 'Miller's selection provides both an instructive primer for those new to Durgnat and a satisfying harvest of largely inaccessible or long out-of-print pieces for the already initiated... a colourful tour of the many styles of address and cultural context that Durgnat enthusiastically immersed himself in and explored to the hilt.' - New Review of Film and Television Studies 'Much-needed' - Cineaste

About Henry K. Miller

Raymond Durgnat (1932-2002) was a film critic and author of many groundbreaking books on cinema, including Films and Feelings (1967), A Mirror for England (1970; 2011), and The Strange Case of Alfred Hitchcock (1974).

Henry K. Miller is a regular contributor to Sight & Sound and has taught film at the University of Cambridge, UK.

Table of Contents

Preface.- Introduction: The Divided Self.- PART 1: AUTEUR WARS Introduction.- 1. Standing Up For Jesus.- 2. Who Really Makes the Movies?.- 3. Cat and Mouse Games.- 4. Michael Powell.- Annotations.- PART 2: JET-PROPELLED PHOTOGRAPHS Introduction.- 5. Flyweight Flicks.- 6. Wholly Communion.- 7. Underground Film Festival Programme Notes.- 8. Asides on Godard.- 9. Ker-Plow!.- 10. Dwoskin's Dream-Films.- 11. London Film-Makers Co-operative Catalogue Entries.- 12. Tonite Let's All Make Love in London.- 13. One Plus One.- 14. Cutting With a Keen Edge.- Annotations.- PART 3: IMAGES OF THE MIND Introduction.- 15. Fake, Fiddle and the Photographic Arts.- 16. Images of the Mind I: Throwaway Movies.- 17. Images of the Mind II: Ebb and Flow.- 18. Images of the Mind III: The Impossible Takes a Little Longer.- 19. Images of the Mind IV: Style and the Old Wave.- Annotations.- PART 4: BRITAIN THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS Introduction.- 20. Brain Drains: Drifters, Avant-Gardes and Kitchen Sinks.- 21. TV's Young Turks.- 22. The Great British Phantasmagoria.- 23. Sexual Alienation in the Cinema.- Annotations.- PART 5: CALIFORNIA SPLIT Introduction.- 24. Montage Rides Again!.- 25. Pacific Film Archive Programme Notes.- 26. From Signs to Meanings in the Cinema.- 27. Popeye Pops Up.- Annotations.- PART 6: LOOKING BACK Introduction.- 28. About John Ford.- 29. A Skeleton Key to Stephen Dwoskin?.- 30. Cooped in a Co-op?.- 31. Jean-Luc Godard: His Crucifixion and Resurrection.- 32. Resnais and Co.: Back to the Avant-Garde.- 33. Aiming at the Archers.- 34. The Prewar Bs: Rewards and Fairies.- 35. Remembering Michael Powell.- Annotations.- Appendix I: Pacific Film Archive Programmes.- Appendix II: Top Tens.- Bibliography.- Index.

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NPB9781844574513
9781844574513
1844574512
The Essential Raymond Durgnat by Henry K. Miller
Henry K. Miller
New
Paperback
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
2014-09-22
256
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