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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
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A film book of rare insight and intelligence........
Worth reading for the Kubrick chapter alone, this book considers the work of our finest directors and contrasts them with the conservatism and anti-intellectualism of 1980s cinema. Moreover, the author discusses community, alienation, dehumanization, and loneliness, all from a fresh, unpretentious standpoint.
Published on July 25, 1999 by Brooke276
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0 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
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Not pleasant to read
I had a hard time staying interested when reading this book. The chapters are too long and dense. This book would be best used as a reference, not for enjoyment and learning.
Published on July 24, 1999 by Larry Darrell
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
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A film book of rare insight and intelligence........,
By Brooke276 (Denver, CO) - See all my reviews
This review is from: A Cinema of Loneliness: Penn, Kubrick, Scorsese, Spielberg, Altman (Oxford paperbacks) (Paperback)
Worth reading for the Kubrick chapter alone, this book considers the work of our finest directors and contrasts them with the conservatism and anti-intellectualism of 1980s cinema. Moreover, the author discusses community, alienation, dehumanization, and loneliness, all from a fresh, unpretentious standpoint.
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
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One of the best books of film criticism I've ever read,
By John Elias (Los Angeles) - See all my reviews
This review is from: A Cinema of Loneliness: Penn, Kubrick, Scorsese, Spielberg, Altman (Oxford paperbacks) (Paperback)
A paradigm of intelligent film criticism. Kolker's astute and subtle formal analysis of the films puts many other so-called critics to shame, and his discussions of the political implications of cinematic form and style are excellent. It is a serious book about movies, and his arguments and insights need to be thought about and struggled with- they are not a meant to be easily digested.
0 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
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This review is from: A Cinema of Loneliness: Penn, Kubrick, Scorsese, Spielberg, Altman (Oxford paperbacks) (Paperback)
I had a hard time staying interested when reading this book. The chapters are too long and dense. This book would be best used as a reference, not for enjoyment and learning.
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A Cinema of Loneliness: Penn, Kubrick, Scorsese, Spielberg, Altman (Oxford paperbacks) by Robert Phillip Kolker (Paperback - June 9, 1988)
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