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Film After Film by J Hoberman
In this sly and thought-provoking volume, J. Hoberman turns an erudite eye to the study of twenty-first-century cinema and finds that, only a dozen years into the new millennium, the world of movies has already experienced a revolutionary transformation. The advent of new digital technology has displaced the medium of photographic film-and, perhaps, the reality on which it once depended. With locations, sets and cameras now optional, the history of motion pictures has become the history of animation. This sea change in filmmaking spanned the 2000 American presidential election and the trauma of 9/11, events that reshaped world politics and left an indelible imprint on the emerging aesthetic of the new century's cinema. A rupture opened up in the evolution of film, presaging, as Susan Sontag forlornly predicted a few years earlier, the death of cinephilia, or at least cinephilia as we know it. Witty and allusive, in the style of classic film theorist/critics such as André Bazin and Siegfried Kracauer, Film After Film expands on a much-discussed era-defining Artforum article by Hoberman before moving on to a chronicle of the Bush years in cinema (featuring reviews from Hoberman's final decade at the Village Voice). The book concludes with considerations of the twenty-one central movies of the twenty-first century, which include works by Lars von Trier and Jia Zhangke as well as the hi-tech spectacles WALL-E and Avatar.
Spirited, thought-provoking and popping with fresh perspectives-- Steve Dollar * Wall Street Journal *
[Film After Film] does what Hoberman does best: use movies and movie culture as prism for understanding political events-and vice versa. -- Jose Teodoro * Film Comment *
Crisply written ... offers many interesting insights ... it will afford knowledgeable general readers and film buffs much to savor. * Library Journal *
Hoberman is tremendously insightful as he integrates his concerns with cinema's political, historical, and aesthetic past and his visions of its future. For cinephiles of any stripe, it's a rare book. He soundly articulates the ideological transformations, digital facelifts, and aesthetic insurrections that have tugged at cinema since the turn of the millennium-ones that have made the medium seem simultaneously stagnant and livelier than ever. -- John Semley * AV Club *
A brilliant, patchwork statement about the future of the cinema-spoiler alert: there is a future-in the face of reports of its imminent demise ... Hoberman's book is a broadly accessible errand in the articulation of how we might imagine digital cinema to reflect twenty-first century culture. * LA Review of Books *
Always a witty and engaging writer, Hoberman has one of the most recognizable voices in contemporary film writing. * Cinespect *
Put simply, nobody writes about the connection between movies and culture better than Hoberman, and Film After Film is a reminder of that fact. * City Beat *
Elegiac and anxious, critical and poetic, Film After Film surveys the current seismic shifts in movies and considers their effect on the cinematic imagination ... [Hoberman's] prose shines without qualification, and the selections remind us that his tenure at the Voice was, simply put, one of the greatest ever by an American film critic, influencing as it did an entire generation of writers. * Bookforum *
Hoberman wittily traces the interlocking of political reality and moviemaking fantasies, to often disturbing effect. * Financial Times *
Nobody in America writes as well about culture and film as J. Hoberman. -- Peter Biskind, author of Down and Dirty Pictures
Film After Film is both a concise history book and one of the best viewing guides available. * Indiewire *
One could go so far as to say that these days Hoberman's a thinker akin to Bazin in his influence. * Capital New York *
One could go so far as to say that these days Hoberman's a thinker akin to Bazin in his influence, through his frequent reviews, books, and as an occasional guest curator. * Capital New York *
A dense, fascinating assemblage that ... encapsulates a decade of film and politics ... by turns jocular and brilliantly reflective. * Cineaste *
Cogent and compelling * Cerise Press *
[Film After Film] does what Hoberman does best: use movies and movie culture as prism for understanding political events-and vice versa. -- Jose Teodoro * Film Comment *
Crisply written ... offers many interesting insights ... it will afford knowledgeable general readers and film buffs much to savor. * Library Journal *
Hoberman is tremendously insightful as he integrates his concerns with cinema's political, historical, and aesthetic past and his visions of its future. For cinephiles of any stripe, it's a rare book. He soundly articulates the ideological transformations, digital facelifts, and aesthetic insurrections that have tugged at cinema since the turn of the millennium-ones that have made the medium seem simultaneously stagnant and livelier than ever. -- John Semley * AV Club *
A brilliant, patchwork statement about the future of the cinema-spoiler alert: there is a future-in the face of reports of its imminent demise ... Hoberman's book is a broadly accessible errand in the articulation of how we might imagine digital cinema to reflect twenty-first century culture. * LA Review of Books *
Always a witty and engaging writer, Hoberman has one of the most recognizable voices in contemporary film writing. * Cinespect *
Put simply, nobody writes about the connection between movies and culture better than Hoberman, and Film After Film is a reminder of that fact. * City Beat *
Elegiac and anxious, critical and poetic, Film After Film surveys the current seismic shifts in movies and considers their effect on the cinematic imagination ... [Hoberman's] prose shines without qualification, and the selections remind us that his tenure at the Voice was, simply put, one of the greatest ever by an American film critic, influencing as it did an entire generation of writers. * Bookforum *
Hoberman wittily traces the interlocking of political reality and moviemaking fantasies, to often disturbing effect. * Financial Times *
Nobody in America writes as well about culture and film as J. Hoberman. -- Peter Biskind, author of Down and Dirty Pictures
Film After Film is both a concise history book and one of the best viewing guides available. * Indiewire *
One could go so far as to say that these days Hoberman's a thinker akin to Bazin in his influence. * Capital New York *
One could go so far as to say that these days Hoberman's a thinker akin to Bazin in his influence, through his frequent reviews, books, and as an occasional guest curator. * Capital New York *
A dense, fascinating assemblage that ... encapsulates a decade of film and politics ... by turns jocular and brilliantly reflective. * Cineaste *
Cogent and compelling * Cerise Press *
J. Hoberman was the senior film critic at the Village Voice from 1988 to 2012. He has taught at Harvard, NYU and Cooper Union, and is the author of ten books, including Bridge of Light, The Red Atlantis, The Dream Life and An Army of Phantoms.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781844677511 |
| ISBN 10 | 1844677516 |
| Title | Film After Film |
| Author | J Hoberman |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Verso Books |
| Year published | 2012-08-21 |
| Number of pages | 304 |
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