Talking about Pauline Kael : critics, filmmakers, and scholars remember an icon / edited by Wayne Stengel.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Stengel, Wayne B., editor.

Bloomsbury (Firm), publisher.

Series:

Film and history.

Film and history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kael, Pauline--Criticism and interpretation.

Kael, Pauline.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (278 p.)

Distribution:

New York : Bloomsbury Publishing (US), 2025.

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Maryland : Rowman and Littlefield, [2015]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

For nearly 25 years, Pauline Kael (1919-2001) was one of America's most respected, controversial, and talked-about film reviewer, yet her film criticism for The New Yorker has never been systematically discussed or analyzed. This collection of essays on Pauline Kael investigates the range, scope, and influence of Kael's film criticism over the years (1968-81) that she wrote for The New Yorker.

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I: Friends, Neighbors, Confidantes; 1 Performing Pauline; 2 Lustily Vigilant; 3 "If you're good enough, they'll have to take you."; Part II: Knowing Pauline: At Home and at the Movies; 4 Conversations, 1968 to 2001; 5 Knowing Pauline; 6 Encounters with Kael, 1975; Part III: Objects of Her Affection: Critics, Journalists, and Movie Makers; 7 Pauline Kael; 8 Visionary, Romantic, Down-to-earth Pauline Kael; 9 My Family Drama; 10 Courting Favor; 11 An Elitist Bag Lady; 12 How Loving Pauline Kael Taught Me How to Disagree with Pauline Kael

Part IV: Stop Making Sense: Academics Consider Pauline Kael13 Critical Fervor; 14 Kael and Kracauer; 15 The Ghost of Pauline Kael; 16 So Meaninglessly Present; 17 That Voice, That Voice, That Sensuous Voice; Part V: Unraveling Pauline: Origins and Influences; 18 Pauline Kael at the Berkeley Cinema Guild-Studio; 19 Criticism, the Desperate Art; 20 Kael's Influence; Part VI: Writing about Pauline Kael; 21 Detective Story; 22 Conversing with Kael; Index; About the Editor and Contributors

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

979-88-8181-856-2

1-4422-5460-2

OCLC:

919317682