Essential Cinema: On the Necessity of Film Canons by Jonathan Rosenbaum
English | April 27, 2004 | ISBN: 0801878403, 0801889715 | True EPUB | 472 pages | 2.3 MB
In his astute and deeply informed film reviews and essays, Jonathan Rosenbaum regularly provides new and brilliant insights into the cinema as art, entertainment, and commerce. Guided by a personal canon of great films, Rosenbaum sees, in the ongoing hostility toward the idea of a canon shared by many within the field of film studies, a missed opportunity both to shape the discussion about cinema and to help inform and guide casual and serious filmgoers alike.