The Earth Dies Streaming : Film Writing, 2002-2018
Hamrah, A. S.2018
Book
"The Earth Dies Streaming solidifies Hamrah's place as our age's most irreplaceable critic."-Kyle Paoletta, GuernicaThe Earth Dies Streaming collects the best of A. S. Hamrah's film writing for n+1, The Baffler, Bookforum, Harper's, and other publications. Acerbic, insightful, hilarious, and damning, Hamrah's aphoristic capsule reviews and lucid career retrospectives of filmmakers and critics have taken up the mantle of serious American film criticism-pioneered by James Agee, Robert Warshow, and Pauline Kael-and carried it into the 21st century. Taken together, these reviews and essays represent some of the best film criticism in the English language. The Earth Dies Streaming showcases a remarkable critical intelligence while offering a cultural history of the cinema of our times.n+1's film critic A. S. Hamrah gives us hiselectric takes on 21st century cinema in thisacerbic, insightful collection of capsulereviews and essays.
Main title:
The Earth Dies Streaming : Film Writing, 2002-2018 / A. S. Hamrah.
Author:
Hamrah, A. S., author
Imprint:
Brooklyn : n+1 Foundation, 2018.
Collation:
564 pages ; 21 cm
ISBN:
9781732294110
Dewey class:
791.4375 HAM
Language:
English
BRN:
1023266