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J. Hoberman's study of Duck Soup (1933) traces the film's reputation, from the initial disappointment of its release, to its rise to cult status in the 1960s when the Marx's anarchic, anti-establishment humor seemed again timely. Hoberman places Duck Soup in its cinematic context, alongside analogous comedies?Dr. Strangelove (1964), the Beatles films, Morgan! (1966), The President's Analyst (1967) and The Producers (1968). It attained canonica...

A collection of film criticism, including movie reviews, essays, and film-festival reports of the '80s. Writing from the perspective of Lower Manhattan, the author places movies in the context of the other visual arts painting, photography, comics, video, and TV as well as that of postmodem theorists such as Leslie Fiedler and Jean Baudrillard.

Named a Best Book of the Year by Financial Times "Singular, stylish and slightly intoxicating in its scope." -Rolling Stone Acclaimed media critic J. Hoberman's masterful and majestic exploration of the Reagan years as seen through the unforgettable movies of the era The third book in a brilliant and ambitious trilogy, celebrated cultural and film critic J. Hoberman's Make My Day is a major new work of film and pop culture history. In it he ch...

One of the world's most erudite and entertaining film critics on the state of cinema in the post-digital - and post-9/11 - age. This witty and allusive book, in the style of classic film theorists/critics like Andre¿ Bazin and Siegfried Kracauer, includes considerations of global cinema's most important figures and films, from Lars von Trier and Jia Jiangke to WALL-E, Avatar and Inception.

The "magic hour" is the name film-makers give the pre-dusk late afternoon, when anything photographed can be bathed in a golden light. This tile anthologizes the author's movie reviews, cultural criticism, and political essays, published in magazines during the period bracketed by the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Trade Towers.

In what the New York Times's A. O. Scott called a "suave, scholarly tour de force, " J. Hoberman delivers a brilliant and witty look at the decade when politics and pop culture became one. This was the era of the Missile Gap and the Space Race, the Black and Sexual Revolutions, the Vietnam War and Watergate-as well as the tele-saturation of the American market and the advent of Pop art. In "elegant, epigrammatic prose, " as Scott put it, Hober...

Anthologizes the author's movie reviews, cultural criticism, and political essays, published in "The Village Voice", "Artforum", and elsewhere during the period bracketed by the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the World Trade Towers.

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Acclaimed by the Los Angeles Review of Books as "the most detailed year-by-year look at Hollywood during the first decade of the Cold War ever published, one that takes film analysis beyond the screen and sets it in its larger political context, ” An Army of Phantoms is a "delightful” and "amazing” (Dissent) work of film history and cultural criticism by J. Hoberman, one of the foremost film critics writing today, addressing the dynamic synerg...

A persistent difficulty faced by management professionals is the absence of sources providing information about objectives, theory, and current aproaches and practices for management development. The editors address this issue by bringing together outstanding management professionals to provide a comprehensive review of current management development theory and practice. Individual case studies employing in-depth descriptions of particular man...

For most of the twentieth century, American and European intellectual life was defined by its fascination with a particular utopian vision. Both the artistic and political vanguards were spellbound by the Communist promise of a new human era -- so much so that its political terrors were rationalized as a form of applied evolution and its collapse hailed as the end of history.The Red Atlantis argues that Communism produced a complex culture wit...

For most of the twentieth century, American and European intellectual life was defined by its fascination with a particular utopian vision. Both the artistic and political vanguards were spellbound by the Communist promise of a new human era -- so much so that its political terrors were rationalized as a form of applied evolution and its collapse hailed as the end of history.The Red Atlantis argues that Communism produced a complex culture wit...

The Rocky Horror Picture Show, El Topo, Eraserhead, Freaks, Pink Flamingos, Desperate Living, The Night of the Living Dead, Performance, Glen or Glenda?, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, the Harder They Come, Mondo Trasho, Chelsea Girls...