J Hoberman: 3 books
An Army of Phantoms
American Movies and the Making of the Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2013
The film critic’s sweeping analysis of American cinema in the Cold War era is both “utterly compulsive reading [and] majestic” in its “breadth and rigor” (Film Comment).
An Army of Phantoms is a major work of film history and cultural criticism by leading film critic J. Hoberman....
by Erika Balsom, Kenneth Berger, Susie Bright
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2019
We all have images that we find unwatchable, whether for ethical, political, or sensory and affective reasons. From news coverage of terror attacks to viral videos of police brutality, and from graphic horror films to transgressive artworks, many of the images in our media culture might strike us...
Film After Film
(Or, What Became of 21st Century Cinema?)
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
One of the world’s most erudite and entertaining film critics on the state of cinema in the post-digital—and post-9/11—age. This witty and allusive book, in the style of classic film theorists/critics like André Bazin and Siegfried Kracauer, includes considerations of global cinema’s most...