Andrew Sarris

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Andrew Sarris

Philosophy

#5935

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#8873

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#1480

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#8588

World Rank

#10765

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#1430

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According to Wikipedia, Andrew Sarris was an American film critic. He was a leading proponent of the auteur theory of film criticism. Early life Sarris was born in Brooklyn, New York, to Greek immigrant parents, Themis and George Andrew Sarris, and grew up in Ozone Park, Queens. After attending John Adams High School in South Ozone Park , he graduated from Columbia University in 1951 and then served for three years in the Army Signal Corps before moving to Paris for a year, where he became a friend of Jean-Luc Godard and François Truffaut. Upon returning to New York's Lower East Side, Sarris briefly pursued graduate studies at his alma mater and Teachers College, Columbia University before turning to film criticism as a vocation.

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Andrew Sarris's Published Works

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Published Works

The American Cinema: Directors and Directions 1929-1968 (1968) (147)
Notes on the 'Auteur' Theory in 1962 (2007) (144)
Interviews with film directors (1967) (22)
The John Ford Movie Mystery (1983) (20)
The Auteur Theory and the Perils of Pauline (1963) (16)
"You ain't heard nothin' yet" : the American talking film : history & memory, 1927-1949 (1999) (15)
Politics and cinema (1978) (14)
Confessions of a Cultist: On the Cinema, 1955/1969 (1970) (9)
Hitchcock's rereleased films : from Rope to Vertigo (1991) (8)
Auteurism Is Alive and Well (1974) (8)
"You ain't heard nothin' yet" (1998) (6)
The films of Josef von Sternberg (1966) (4)
Citizen Sarris, American Film Critic: Essays in Honor of Andrew Sarris (2000) (3)
The magic factory : how MGM made An American in Paris (1973) (3)
The St. James film directors encyclopedia (1997) (2)
Film: The Illusion of Naturalism (1968) (2)
“Loved Him, Hated It”: (2020) (1)
The Shape of Films to Come (1993) (1)
Rerunning Puig and Cabrera Infante (1973) (1)
Dwight Macdonald on Movies@@@Film 68-69 (1970) (0)
Taking Film Seriously: A Conversation with Andrew Sarris and Molly Haskell (2010) (0)
Film culture index (2012) (0)
Literature and Film (1971) (0)
A Lesson Plan for a Course in Film History (2018) (0)
Interviews with Film Directors@@@The American Cinema (1969) (0)
Motion Pictures and Photograph (1976) (0)
John Ford@@@The John Ford Movie Mystery (1977) (0)
Film : an anthology by the National Society of Film Critics (1968) (0)
From the Kaiser to the Oscar (1998) (0)

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Columbia University