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 Andr� Bazin and Siegfried Kracauer, includes considerations of global cinema’s most important figures and films, from Lars von Trier and Jia Zhangke to
WALL-E,
Avatar and
Inception.
Mengenai Pengarang
J. Hoberman was for over three decades a film and culture critic for The Village Voice. His previous books have explored the subculture of midnight movies, the rise and fall of Yiddish-language cinema, the international Communist avantgarde, So Ho performance art, and the underground filmmaker Jack Smith. His ‘found illusions’ trilogy-which includes The Dream Life, Make My Day, and An Army of Phantoms-used Hollywood to refract the history of the Cold War.