{"product_id":"james-agee-film-writing-and-selected-journalism-loa-160-agee-on-film-uncollected-film-writing-the-night-of-the-hunter-journalism-and-film-r-hardcover","title":"James Agee: Film Writing and Selected Journalism (Loa #160): Agee on Film \/ Uncollected Film Writing \/ The Night of the Hunter \/ Journalism and Film R - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJames Agee\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eMichael Sragow\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJames 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 \u003ci\u003eThe Nation\u003c\/i\u003e \"the most remarkable regular event in American journalism today.\" Those columns, along with much of the movie criticism that Agee wrote for \u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e through most of the 1940s, were collected posthumously in \u003ci\u003eAgee on Film: Reviews and Comments\u003c\/i\u003e, undoubtedly the most influential writings on film by an American. This Library of America volume supplements the classic pieces from \u003ci\u003eAgee on Film\u003c\/i\u003e with previously uncollected writings on Ingrid Bergman, the Marx Brothers, Alfred Hitchcock's \u003ci\u003eLifeboat\u003c\/i\u003e, Vittorio De Sica's \u003ci\u003eShoeshine\u003c\/i\u003e, and a wealth of other cinematic subjects. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Agee's own work as a screenwriter is represented by his script for Charles Laughton's unique and haunting masterpiece of Southern gothic, \u003ci\u003eThe Night of the Hunter\u003c\/i\u003e, adapted from the novel by Davis Grubb. This collection also includes examples of Agee's masterfully probing reporting for \u003ci\u003eFortune\u003c\/i\u003e--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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eLIBRARY OF AMERICA\u003c\/b\u003e 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.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJames Agee\u003c\/b\u003e (1909-1955) was a novelist, journalist, poet, screenwriter and film critic, the author of such landmark works as \u003ci\u003eLet Us Now Praise Famous Men\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eAgee on Film\u003c\/i\u003e. His posthumously published novel \u003ci\u003eA Death in the Family\u003c\/i\u003e (1957) was awarded the Pulitzer Prize. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eMichael Sragow\u003c\/b\u003e is the West Coast Editor and a film critic for \u003ci\u003eFilm Comment\u003c\/i\u003e and author of \u003ci\u003eVictor Fleming: An American Movie Master\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 748\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.01 x 8.14 x 5.2 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 22, 2005\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42700559056959,"sku":"9781931082822","price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/20c4cd11bf67a9b0465671ab6d1eb45b.webp?v=1765017235","url":"https:\/\/dhl-adrianne.myshopify.com\/products\/james-agee-film-writing-and-selected-journalism-loa-160-agee-on-film-uncollected-film-writing-the-night-of-the-hunter-journalism-and-film-r-hardcover","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}