CONVERSATIONS WITH STANLEY KAUFFMANN: LITERARY CONVERSATIONS SERIES - Rare Fine Copy of The First Hardcover Edition/First Printing: With Bookplate Signed by E. L. Doctorow - ONLY SUCH SIGNED COPY ONLINE

Kauffmann, Stanley (Author); Cardullo, Bert (Editor) & Doctorow, E.L. (Signatory)

ISBN 10: 1578065658 / ISBN 13: 9781578065653

Edité par Jackson, MS: University Press, 2003, 2003

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1st Printing. Signed. 212 pages. Published in 2003. The author's collection of interviews. Published in a small and limited print run of 500 copies by a university press, the University Press of Mississippi, as part of the now-legendary "Literary Conversations" Series. This First Hardcover Edition was sold to public libraries only and was never reissued. Should not be confused with the regular trade Softcover Edition. The First Edition is now rare. Without DJ, as issued. Presents, in the most collectible format possible, "Conversations With Stanley Kauffmann". A representative selection of interviews conducted by various writers, journalists, and scholars with the author. Stanley Kauffmann is one of only two film critics included in the Series, the other being Pauline Kael, his polar opposite, the passionate and opinionated "film fan" to his reflective "film thinker". That Kael has had a much larger audience - and influence - says a lot about the current state of film criticism and American film itself, most of it negative because Kauffmann was the stronger critic. Gives a rich, complex, and lively overview of both the life and mind of one of America's most important critics. Presented in chronological order, the interviews cumulatively amount to an absorbing account of one of the greatest critical journeys of the 20th century, which is the explicit intention of the publisher with each writer who is included in the Series. An absolute "must-have" title for Stanley Kauffmann collectors. This copy comes with a 3 X 4 inch Author's Bookplate that is very prominently and beautifully signed in black ink-pen by E. L. Doctorow. The Bookplate is neatly and discreetly pasted on the Back Inside Cover (rather than the front, from which it was clearly removed and then relocated). It could be Doctorow's personal copy, but I have not been able to verify it independently. This title is a great collection. As far as we know, this is the only copy (with Signed Bookplate) of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. Please note: Copies available online have very serious flaws, are former library copies, or the Softcover Edition. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare copy thus. One of the greatest critics of the 20th century. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER STANLEY KAUFFMANN TITLES IN OUR CATALOG) ISBN 1578065658.

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• Titre: CONVERSATIONS WITH STANLEY KAUFFMANN: LITERARY CONVERSATIONS SERIES - Rare Fine Copy of The First Hardcover Edition/First Printing: With Bookplate Signed by E. L. Doctorow - ONLY SUCH SIGNED COPY ONLINE
• Éditeur: Jackson, MS: University Press, 2003
• Date de parution: 2003
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1578065658
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781578065653
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: 1st Edition.
• État de l'article: Fine
• État de la jaquette: None, As Issued
• Signé: Signed by Author

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Synopsis

This collection of interviews with Stanley Kauffmann (b. 1916) provides a virtual history of the journalistic practice of criticism in twentieth-century America. His creative life spans seven decades, and since 1958, he has been a film and drama critic for the New Republic, the New York Times, and Saturday Review. He also has been an actor, stage manager, playwright, novelist, and editor. Along with Dwight Macdonald, Andrew Sarris, and John Simon, he is one of the potent, influential critics included in the New York school of twentieth-century American criticism. The Los Angeles Times called him ""the Dean Swift of our country's criticism."" Susan Sontag proclaimed him ""one of our national treasures."" In this collection of interviews conducted by Charlie Rose, Dick Cavett, and others he speaks both of the role of theater and film criticism in American culture and of the crisis he perceives within it. With wit and erudition Kauffmann discusses many subjects-film directors who emerged during his long tenure at the New Republic (e.g., Martin Scorsese and Federico Fellini), actors who performed on both stage and screen, novels and their film adaptations, and the fractious relationship between Hollywood and the independent film movement. The precision and concise phrasing of Kauffmann's writing chime also in his brilliant conversations as he speaks of sex, taste, realism, the rise of film festival culture, and government subsidy of the arts. The volume ends with a conversation from 1998 in celebration of Kauffmann's forty-year tenure at the New Republic, where he continues to publish film reviews every week. The collection reveals this critic's sense of cultural mission by showing how Kauffmann applies to drama and film the same high standards he applies to fiction, poetry, music, and theater. Conversations with Stanley Kauffmann reveals that this love of the arts is expressed in his finely honed gift for cogent, witty, wise commentary. Bert Cardullo, a professor of theater and drama at the University of Michigan, has written and edited several books on film and theater and has been published in the Hudson Review, the New Republic, Literature / Film Quarterly, South Atlantic Quarterly, and other publications.