Isbn: 9781931082822 - james agee: film writing and selected journalism (loa #160): agee on film / uncollected film writing / the night of the hunter / journalism and film ... of america james agee edition, band 2) (10 Ergebnisse)

Hardback. Zustand: Good. James Agee brought to bear all his moral energy, slashing wit, and boundless curiosity in the criticism and journalism that established him as one of the commanding literary voices of America at mid-century. In 1944 W. H. Auden called Agee?s film reviews for The Nation ?the most remarkable regular event in American journalism today.? Those columns, along with much of the movie criticism that Agee wrote for Time through most of the 1940s, were collected posthumously in Agee on Film: Reviews and Comments, undoubtedly the most influential writings on film by an American. This Library of America volume supplements the classic pieces from Agee on Film with previously uncollected writings on Ingrid Bergman, the Marx Brothers, Alfred Hitchcock?s Lifeboat, Vittorio De Sica?s Shoeshine, and a wealth of other cinematic subjects. Whether reviewing a Judy Garland musical or a wartime documentary, assessing the impact of Italian neorealism or railing against the compromises in a Hollywood adaptation of Hemingway, Agee always wrote of movies as a pervasive, profoundly significant part of modern life, a new art whose classics (Chaplin, Dovzhenko, Vigo) he revered and whose betrayal in the interests of commerce or propaganda he often deplored. If his frequent disappointments could be registered in acid tones, his enthusiasms were expressed with passionate eloquence. Agee?s own work as a screenwriter is represented by his script for Charles Laughton?s unique and haunting masterpiece of Southern gothic, The Night of the Hunter, adapted from the novel by Davis Grubb. This collection also includes examples of Agee?s masterfully probing reporting for Fortune?on subjects as diverse as the Tennessee Valley Authority, commercial orchids, and cockfighting?and a sampling of his literary reviews, among them appreciations of William Faulkner, Virginia Woolf, S. J. Perelman, and William Carlos Williams.LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation?s literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America?s best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. LOA #160; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; â" Book is in good overall condition. No writing or major blemishes. Average wear. *Ex-Library copy with usual markings.; - Your satisfaction is our priority. We offer free returns and respond promptly to all inquiries. Your item will be packaged with care and ship on the same or next business day. Buy with confidence.…

Hardcover in slipcase. Zustand: New. First Edition; First Printing. Library of America #160; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 748 pages; 2005 Library of America #160. Subscriber's version. Slipcased HC still in publisher's shrink-wrap. 1st edition, 1st printing. Prior owner was a subscriber of LOA from the very first book published and received all editions immediately upon publication. This copy essentially new, still sealed. Fine.…

Zustand: New. 2005. First Edition. hardcover. . . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Zustand: New. pp. 748 Illus.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. First edition thus. Selected with notes by Michael Sragow. Octavo. 748pp. Tan cloth. Fine in fine dust jacket. The Library of America Series, Volume 160.

Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 748 pages. 8.00x5.00x1.00 inches. In Stock.

Gebunden. Zustand: New. James Agee (1909-1955) was a&#160novelist, journalist, poet, screenwriter and film critic, the author of such landmark works as Let Us Now Praise Famous Men and Agee on Film. His posthumously published novel A Death in the Family.

Hardcover. Edited by Michael Sragow. 8vo. Tan cloth with gilt spine lettering, ivory slipcase. 748pp, (5pp). Illustrations, decorative endpapers, sewn-in tan satin page marker. Fine/fine. A tight and pristine first edition thus (volume 160) of this selection, elaborated on title page as "Agee on Film: Reviews and Comments / Uncollected Film Writing / The Night of the Hunter / Journalism and Book Reviews." Interesting autograph addition: Agee's screenplay "Night of the Hunter" was turned into the 1955 film noire thriller starring Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters and Lillian Gish -- this last of whom has boldly signed in black fineline a fine heavy stock 5" X 3" card tipped to an inner flyleaf. Gish (1896-1993) who portrays Rachel Cooper in the film, was nicknamed "The First Lady of the Silent Screen" and her many films ranged from silent classics such as "Birth of a Nation" (1915) to made-for-television dramas such as "The Whales of August" (1987). Quite an unusual copy. Laid in is the LOA leaflet for this volume.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. First edition. Fine in fine slipcase. Includes "Agee on Film: Reviews and Comments", "Uncollected Film Writing", "The Night of the Hunter", and "Journalism and Book Reviews".