Download e-book for iPad: Goodbye Cinema, Hello Cinephilia: Film Culture in Transition by Jonathan Rosenbaum

The esteemed movie critic Jonathan Rosenbaum has introduced worldwide cinema to American audiences for the final 4 a long time. His incisive writings on person filmmakers outline movie tradition as a various and ever-evolving perform, unpredictable but topic to analyses simply as different as his personal discriminating tastes. For Rosenbaum, there isn't any excessive or low cinema, basically extra fascinating or much less fascinating motion pictures, and the items gathered the following, from an appreciation of Marilyn Monroe’s intelligence to a vintage dialogue on and with Jean-Luc Godard, amply testify to his extensive mind and multi-faceted expertise. Goodbye Cinema, hi Cinephilia gathers jointly over fifty examples of Rosenbaum’s feedback from the prior 4 many years, each one of which demonstrates his ardour for a way we view video clips, in addition to how we write approximately them. Charting our altering matters with the interconnected matters that encompass video, DVDs, the web, and new media, the writings amassed the following additionally spotlight Rosenbaum’s polemics in regards to the electronic age. From the rediscovery and recirculation of vintage movies, to the social and aesthetic influence of technological alterations, Rosenbaum doesn’t disappoint in assembling a magisterial forged of little-known filmmakers in addition to the universal faces and iconic names that experience helped to outline our era.

As we circulation into this new decade of moviegoing—one within which Hollywood will proceed to believe the shockwaves of the electronic age—Jonathan Rosenbaum remains a important consultant. Goodbye Cinema, hi Cinephilia is a consummate selection of his paintings, now not easily for enthusiasts of this seminal critic, yet for all these open to the big variety of flicks he embraces and is helping us to elucidate.