Celluloid Power - Social Film Criticism from the Birth of a Nation to Judgment at Nuremberg (Hardcover, New)

In this unique anthology of social criticism, David Platt reprints the insightful contributions of more than fifty screenwriters, directors, producers, historians, and critics-men and women, radical and liberal, including not a few former political prisoners, deportees, and exiles-on diverse films from the earliest years of the film industry through the 1970s. Documentary films are included, and close attention is paid to nationalities and minorities. Among the contributors are Maxim Gorky, David Platt, Anthony Slide, Lewis Milestone, Jay Leyda, Kevin Brownlow, Harry Alan Potamkin, S.M. Einstein, Lewis Jacobs, Leo Seltzer, Albert Maltz, Ring Lardner, Jr., Jean Renoir, Abraham Polonsky, Lorraine Hansberry, Gale Sondergaard, Dalton Trumbo, Arthur Knight, and many others.

General

Imprint:	Scarecrow Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	December 1992
First published:	October 1992
Authors:	David Platt
Dimensions:	220 x 153 x 45mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	652
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-0-8108-2442-3
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > Films, cinema > General Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > General Books > History > History of specific subjects > General
LSN:	0-8108-2442-6
Barcode:	9780810824423

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