Negative Space: Manny Farber On The Movies

Negative Space: Manny Farber On The Movies
by Manny Farber

Negative Space: Manny Farber On The Movies
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Author: Manny Farber
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1998-03-21
ISBN: 0306808293
Number of pages: 412
Publisher: Da Capo Press

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Summary: 5 Stars

Farber found the best metaphor for his inclinations as well as his work: the termite, who burrows, chews, and undermines. Just as Thelonious Monk's solos softly undermine the themes on which they are constructed, so the bits of outrageous reality peeping into the Walsh films Farber so much admires undermine the fictional world Walsh has so carelessly constructed, and the critiques Farber savagely launches at film festivals and white elephant movies undermine their subjects by his relentless burrowing.

Summary of Negative Space: Manny Farber On The Movies

Manny Farber, one of the most important critics in movie history, championed the American action film?the bravado of Howard Hawks, the art brut styling of Samuel Fuller, the crafty, sordid entertainments of Don Siegel?at 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.

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