title: Regarding Film: Criticism and Comment (PAJ Books)
author: Mr. Stanley Kauffmann
description: This latest collection of cinema criticism by longtime New Republic film and theater critic and novelist Kauffmann (Before My Eyes; Distinguishing Features) tackles 59 foreign and domestic documentary and commercial films released between 1993 and 1998. Some include Pulp Fiction, Barcelona, Much Ado About Nothing, Sense and Sensibility (Michael Wood's foreword suggests that Kauffmann may be the world's biggest Emma Thompson fan), Fargo, Spanking the Monkey, and Eyes Wide Shut (with an analysis based on content and technique, not pre-premiere media voyeurism). Also examined are three restored films (A Streetcar Named Desire, Nights of Cabiria, and Touch of Evil), movie versions of Mozart operas, and books about Billy Wilder, David Lean, the Lumieres, and George Bernard Shaw. In 1966, Kauffmann coined the term "film generation," making him perhaps the first person to realize that postwar audiences made film art an entertainment and an important one at that. He also muses on the decline of film literacy and expresses guarded hope that the cinema will persist. Film students should take note. This is recommended for academic and public film and performing arts collections. Kim Holston, American Inst. for Chartered Property Casualty Underwriters, Malvern, PA <br />Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.
zlib_text: Critical Approaches to the Films of Robert Rodriguez
  
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  Critical Approaches to the 
  Films of Robert Rodriguez
  EditEd by FrEdErick Luis ALdAmA
  AFtErword by ALvAro rodriguEz
  University of Texas Press   Austin
  
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  Critical approaches to the films of Robert Rodriguez / edited by  
  Frederick Luis Aldama. — First edition.
    pages  cm
   Includes bibliographical references and index.
   ISBN 978-0-292-76355-5 (cloth : alk. paper)
  1. Rodriguez, Robert, 1968–, Criticism and 