L'autore:
David Walsh is from New York City and has been arts editor of the World Socialist Web Site since its launch in January 1998. He has been a full-time socialist journalist since 1991, writing extensively about films and filmmakers. In addition, he has examined the roots of the present crisis in art in a number of essays and talks. He also writes about contemporary politics, as well as cultural and historical issues.
Dalla seconda/terza di copertina:
"Although David Walsh and I have many aesthetic differences, I find a great deal to admire in this collection of his criticism. He has held a steady course through a volatile period of cinema, and I congratulate him for his insistence on seeing lms in a social context, and for refusing to rationalize or make excuses." —ANDREW SARRIS (1928-2012), author of The American Cinema: Directors and Directions 1929–1968 and “You Ain't Heard Nothin' Yet”: The American Talking Film – History and Memory, 1927–1949 "Regardless of whether or not you agree with him, David Walsh is a critic, reviewer, and journalist who keeps you perpetually on your toes and gives you plenty to chew on and mull over. This plentiful collection of his reviews, interviews, and essays is long overdue." —JONATHAN ROSENBAUM, author of Placing Movies: The Practice of Film Criticism and Movies as Politics "This collection ofreviews, interviews, and essays is very welcome. David Walsh is one of America's major cultural critics. He engages in incisive and interrogative criticism second-to-none in this very troubling market-dominated world ... [H]is criticism is essential reading not only for those seeking fresh and stimulating perspectives but also for its breathtaking display of insightful and politically aware observations mostly absent from today's critical landscape." —TONY WILLIAMS, author of Body and Soul: The Cinematic Vision of Robert Aldrich and Structures of Desire: British Cinema, 1939–1955 "Without David Walsh, we would be in even greater trouble than we are now.There is no one writing about lms today who has his depth of insight into the sociopolitical issues lmmakers grapple with, or more often fail to grapple with.... A reader discovering him for the rst time will have the feeling of a curtain being lifted to reveal the dark truths usually hidden from our view by what passes for most other writing on film." —JOSEPH MCBRIDE, author of Frank Capra: The Catastrophe of Successand Searching for John Ford
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