The Best American Movie Writing 1999

By: Shinder, Jason

Director and film scholar Peter Bogdanovich curates this second annual collection of exceptional writing about film--with essays by famous directors, historians, critics and novelists. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312244932
• ISBN13: 9780312244934
• Release Date: October 1999
• Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.3" x 0.8" x 5.5"

Customer Reviews

Eclectic Collection of Accessible Writing

This book featured a broad range of styles and subject matter, written by the icons of film and literature. Essays by Stephen Spielberg, Martin Scorcese, Gore Vidal, and E.L. Doctorow fill this volume with breadth and depth often lacking outside the halls of Cineaste. The collection also features a review of Eve's Bayou from Cineaste by a writer named Mia Mask, a scintillating piece yet clearly rooted in the academy. I am sure we will hear more from this writer in the future. I view films differently after the perspectives gained from this accessible text.