David Bordwell is the Jacques Ledoux Professor of Film Studies Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. With Kristin Thompson, he is coauthor of Film Art: An Introduction and Film History: An Introduction and the blog Observations on Film Art, which can be found at http: //www.davidbordwell.net/blog.
"The Rhapsodes is imminently readable, a slim volume that slips in
your backpack just as easily as it slips into serious film
discourse."-- "Isthmus" (4/25/2016 12:00:00 AM)
"The Rhapsodes, besides being a pleasure to read, makes a
sophisticated contribution to the study of film criticism."--
"Cineaste" (9/8/2016 12:00:00 AM)
"In The Rhapsodes, [Bordwell's] applied his sharp analytic eye not
just to the arguments put forth by his four subjects but also--and
this may be the most fun part of the book--to their prose."--
"Fandor" (5/2/2016 12:00:00 AM)
"If you have a driving or even just a drive-by interest in arts
criticism, film writing and the love we share for all kinds of
movies, The Rhapsodes is a swift, terrific read."--Michael Phillips
"Chicago Tribune" (4/26/2016 12:00:00 AM)
"The primary pleasure of this book comes from Bordwell's
appreciation of the originality of these writers, the way each of
them constructed a distinctive prose whose mixing of unlike
elements calls to mind that homemade world that the critic Hugh
Kenner discerned in the poetry of William Carlos Williams and
Wallace Stevens. There is real enthusiasm, and valuable guidance,
in Bordwell's tour, as he plucks out particularly lively or
audacious passages. He walks us through the literature with an
admirably light step, pointing out highlights and connecting dots,
and, as he goes, filling in some of the background of the 1940s
intellectual milieu in which these men worked. . . . The Rhapsodes
elicits an awareness of just how much expressive energy was pouring
out on the movie screens of America in pictures that many continued
to regard as disposable time killers."--Geoffrey O'Brien "Artforum"
(5/2/2016 12:00:00 AM)
"While each of the subjects of The Rhapsodes has come in for their
appreciation in turn at one time or another, Bordwell's unique
accomplishment is to situate them within the larger context of
American arts journalism. . . . As one reasonably well-acquainted
with all of Bordwell's Rhapsodes, much information here was new to
me. . . . There are also Bordwell's typically lucid close reads of
each writer's idiosyncratic style. . . . This slim volume is worth
an even dozen critic memoirs--and in recounting Ferguson's call to
arms for a film criticism worthy of its subject, it sounds a
reveille of its own."--Nick Pinkerton "Sight & Sound" (5/2/2016
12:00:00 AM)
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