The Birth And Near Demise Of Film R J Cardullo by R. J. Cardullo 9781954623019, 9780648184423, 1954623011, 0648184420 instant download after payment.

A Russian Jewish émigré who spent most of his life in Britain and America, Alexander Bakshy began writing on film in 1913 and, as the first movie critic for The Nation, was 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 film in 1929, when most film writers were wringing their hands that the gimmick called sound was destroying cinema as they knew it. But Bakshy was absolutely sure that sound cinema would find its footing and move film into a new and better era. He was thus among 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. Bakshy was also an innovative theorist who applied to cinema the discourse of self-reflexive modernism. Dr. R. J. Cardullo skillfully brings together the essence of Alexander Bakshy's vision of film, with thoughtful commentary on such important films as Chaplin's City Lights, Eisenstein's Ten Days That Shook the World, Dreyer's Passion of Joan of Arc, Clair's Sous les toits de Paris, Pabst's Kameradschaft, Kinugasa's Slums of Tokyo, Lubitsch's Trouble in Paradise, and Milestone's All Quiet on the Western Front. The reader also gets Bakshy's penetrating insight into such important movie directors as Alfred Hitchcock, Frank Capra, Jean Renoir, F. W. Murnau, George Cukor, Vsevolod Pudovkin, and Howard Hawks.