{"title":"Manny Farber","description":"\u003cp\u003eDiscover the sharp, insightful film criticism of Manny Farber. Known for his 'negative capability' and challenging perspectives, Farber's essays offer a refreshing take on cinema. Dive into his influential work today.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"negative-space-book-manny-farber-9780306808296","title":"Negative Space","description":"Manny Farber, one of the most important critics  in movie history, championed the American action filmthe bravado of Howard Hawks, the art brut styling of Samuel Fuller, the crafty, sordid entertainments of Don Siegelat a time when other critics dismissed the genre. His witty, incisive criticism later worked exacting language into an exploration of the feelings and strategies that went into low-budget and  radical films as diverse as Michael Snow's Wavelength, Werner Herzog's Fata Morgana , and Chantal Akerman's Jeanne Dielman. Expanded with an in-depth interview and seven essays written with his wife, artist Patricia Patterson, Negative Space gathers Farber's most influential writings, making this an indispensable collection for all lovers of film.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49724171845905,"sku":"GOR005922093","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50658988294417,"sku":"CIN0306808293G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":52450734473489,"sku":"CIN0306808293VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0306808293.jpg?v=1750908900"},{"product_id":"farber-on-film-the-complete-film-writings-of-manny-farber-book-manny-farber-9781598534696","title":"Farber on Film: The Complete Film Writings of Manny Farber","description":"Manny Farber was a unique figure among American movie critics. Champion of what he called 'termite art', master of a one-of-a-kind prose style whose jazz-like phrasing and incandescent twists and turns made every review an adventure, he has long been revered by his peers. Susan Sontag called him 'the liveliest, smartest, most original film critic this country ever produced.' 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Champion of what he called termite art (focused, often eccentric virtuosity as opposed to white elephant monumentality), master of a one-of-a-kind prose style whose jazz-like phrasing and incandescent twists and turns made every review an adventure, he has long been revered by his peers. Susan Sontag called him the liveliest, smartest, most original film critic this country ever produced; for Peter Bogdanovich, he was razor-sharp in his perceptions and never less than brilliant as a writer. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Farber was an early discoverer of many filmmakers later acclaimed as American masters: Val Lewton, Preston Sturges, Samuel Fuller, Raoul Walsh, Anthony Mann. A prodigiously gifted painter himself, he brought to his writing an artist's eye for what was on the screen. Alert to any filmmaker, no matter how marginal or unsung, who was doing go-for-broke art and not caring what comes of it, he was uncompromising in his contempt for pretension and trendiness, for, as he put it, directors who pin the viewer to the wall and slug him with wet towels of artiness and significance. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The excitement of his criticism, however, has less to do with his particular likes and dislikes than with the quality of attention he paid to each film as it unfolds, to the chains of rapport and intimate knowledge in its moment-to-moment reality. To transcribe that knowledge he created a prose that, in Robert Polito's words, allows for oddities, muddles, crises, contradictions, dead ends, multiple alternatives, and divergent vistas. 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