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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. James Agee was a very good writer with a very good novel "A Death in the Family" to his credit, and three film scripts produced. He is reasonably lauded for his efforts. The USA of his times, the 1940's and 50's did not give him his due and this volume contains his essay on silent film comedies, and the film reviews he wrote for "The Nation" and "Time" magazines. His reviews set a very high standard of readability and sound analysis and are an education for those of us laying down reviews for Library thing. And all of us should read them. My copy is Grosset's universal Library, 1969. ( )
Was Agee’s moviegoing so virtuous, or did he, perhaps, now and then, like the rest of us, enjoy decadent, sleazy, slick commercial pictures? We ought to be able to see a reasonably lousy picture without feeling we’ve been violated. Agee always seemed to feel personally betrayed by synthetic elements in a movie, by “sophistication.” Because Agee was so great a critic, there is a tendency to take over his terms, but his excessive virtue may have been his worst critical vice. Agee’s demands were, in some ways, both impossibly high for the movie medium and peculiarly childlike... I don’t think we would be expected to respond to this sort of thing in literature, but, possibly because of Agee’s influence, we are expected to have very simple tastes when it comes to movies. Yet simple people in simple stories made some of us yawn even as children — which is probably why we started going to the movies. The place for goodness is in life, not on the screen. I realize that Agee used words like “love” and “purity” in order to get away from clever language and professional jargon — that he wanted language as well as movies cleansed — but though movies need cleansing more than ever, we mustn’t throw the whore out with the bath water. Contenido enAparece abreviada en
Las criticas que el escritor y guionista James Agee publico en el periodico de izquierdas The Nation desde noviembre de 1941 hasta septiembre de 1948 representaron, junto con los textos de Manny Farber, el nacimiento de la critica cinematografica norteamericana. Agee acababa de editar, junto con el fotografo Walker Evans, Elogiemos ahora a hombres famosos, uno de los libros basicos para entender no solo la gran depresion, sino tambien la literatura que genero. Pero lo cierto es que sus textos sobre cine anunciaron tanto una determinada vision del tema, que cuestionaba la retorica artistica en beneficio de la inmediatez, como el testimonio lucido y reflexivo de un espectador que observo criticamente las ficciones y documentales que Hollywood construyo durante la segunda guerra mundial y la posguerra. Una vez finalizada su actividad en The Nation, Agee continuo escribiendo sobre cine en algunos ensayos publicados en las revistas Life y Sight and Sound, los cuales, junto a su colaboracion para Time, tambien se incluyen en esta seleccion. Todo ello demuestra que el cine no fue para Agee una simple pasion que rentabilizo durante un periodo de su vida, como simple trabajo de encargo, sino que llego a adquirir una importancia fundamental como parte integrante de su obra. Actualmente, nadie duda en considerar los articulos periodisticos sobre cine de Agee como uno de los ejes fundamentales de su actividad literaria. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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