David Sterritt
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American film critic
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, David Sterritt is a film critic, author and scholar. He is most notable for his work on Alfred Hitchcock and Jean-Luc Godard, and his many years as the Film Critic for The Christian Science Monitor, where, from 1968 until his retirement in 2005, he championed avant garde cinema, theater and music. He has a Ph.D. in Cinema Studies from New York University and is the Chairman of the National Society of Film Critics.
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Published Works
- The Films of Jean-Luc Godard: Seeing the Invisible (1999) (55)
- Altman (2015) (46)
- Mad to be saved : the Beats, the '50s, and film (1998) (16)
- Puzzle Pictures (2016) (15)
- Revision, Prevision, and the Aura of Improvisatory Art (2000) (15)
- Transcendence (2019) (15)
- Abundance patterns of marine fish larvae during spring in a southeastern Alaskan bay (2008) (12)
- Days of Heaven and Waco: Terrence Malick's The Tree of Life (2011) (11)
- The neuro-image: a Deleuzian film-philosophy of digital screen culture (2013) (11)
- Robert Altman : interviews (2000) (7)
- James Walters (2008) Alternative Worlds in Hollywood Cinema: Resonance Between Realms (2010) (7)
- “Time Destroys All Things”: An Interview With Gaspar Noé (2007) (7)
- The Beats: A Very Short Introduction (2013) (6)
- Virtual Cinema (2020) (5)
- Screening the Beats: Media Culture and the Beat Sensibility (2004) (4)
- Deleuze and world cinemas (2012) (3)
- Book Review: Edgar G. Ulmer: A Filmmaker at the Margins (2013) (3)
- The Films of Jean-Luc Godard (1999) (3)
- “The Future is Digital Cinema”: An Interview with Arturo Ripstein and Paz Alicia Garciadiego (2003) (2)
- The Animated Adventures of Lotte Reiniger (2020) (2)
- The Wooster Group (2018) (2)
- Hollywood’s Holocaust (2009) (2)
- Book Review: Nicholas Ray: The Glorious Failure of an American Director (2013) (2)
- The Coen Brothers' Fargo : Fargo in Context: The Middle of Nowhere? (2003) (2)
- Flicker Alley (2016) (1)
- Review: On the Camera Arts and Consecutive Matters: The Writings of Hollis Frampton, ed. Bruce Jenkins; Optic Antics: The Cinema of Ken Jacobs, ed. Michele Pierson, David E. James, and Paul Arthur (2011) (1)
- The Cinema of Britain and Ireland (2008) (1)
- The Cinema of Clint Eastwood: Chronicles of America (2014) (1)
- The Films of Jean-Luc Godard: My Life to Live (1999) (1)
- Blackface, Bamboozled, and Zoe Saldana (2016) (1)
- Spielberg, iconophobia, and the mimetic uncanny (2009) (1)
- Schizophrenizing cinema: rhizomatics, dualisms and the infinite ‘and … and … and …’ (2010) (1)
- Images of Religion, Ritual, and the Sacred in Martin Scorsese's Cinema (2014) (1)
- The Best (and Worst) Films of 2015 (2016) (1)
- De Palma, Pure Cinema, and Snakes (2020) (1)
- Chantal Akerman, 1950–2015 (2016) (1)
- Godardiana: A Reply to Marcia Landy (2002) (1)
- Text and Drugs and Rock 'N' Roll: The Beats and Rock Culture (2014) (1)
- Early Female Filmmakers (and California Noir) (2017) (1)
- The Best of 2017 (2018) (1)
- Race Movies: Pioneers of African-American Cinema (Kino Lorber) (2017) (1)
- Awakening the Eye: Robert Frank's American Cinema (2017) (0)
- Politics, Eternalisms, and the Mad Science of Ken Jacobs (2022) (0)
- Portrait of the Artist as a Major Player (2014) (0)
- Book reviews (2005) (0)
- Epilogue: ‘If somebody’s dumb enough to ask me…’ (2014) (0)
- Thomas Hart Benton and the Hollywood Epic (2015) (0)
- The Films of Krzysztof Kieslowski: The Liminal Image:The Films of Krzysztof Kieslowski: The Liminal Image (2005) (0)
- Experimental Cinema Old and New (2017) (0)
- James Schamus .Carl Theodor Dreyer's "Gertrud": The Moving Word. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2008. $17.50 paper. 118 pages. (2009) (0)
- Leni (2019) (0)
- In Praise of the Regional Film Festival (2016) (0)
- ‘If somebody’s dumb enough to ask me …’ (2014) (0)
- Restored, Revived, Resplendent (2018) (0)
- Screens: Viewing Media Installation Art (review) (2012) (0)
- City That Never Sleeps: New York and the Filmic Imagination (2007) (0)
- American Film Criticism (2011) (0)
- From the Departing Guest Editor (2013) (0)
- Godard, Gorin, and Company (2018) (0)
- A Latin Legacy in Louise Labe: Imitation of Tibullus 1.2.89-94 (2005) (0)
- The Films of Jean-Luc Godard: Notes (1999) (0)
- A Previously Unpublished Interview with Andrew Sarris, 1995 (2013) (0)
- Seeking (and Finding) Brakhage (2023) (0)
- Thanatos ex Machina (2001) (0)
- Consumed: A Novel, by David Cronenberg (New York: Scribner, 2014) (2015) (0)
- The Fictitious (Auto)biographies of Mark Rappaport (2020) (0)
- British Film, English Film, “British” Film (2023) (0)
- The Criterion Treatment (2019) (0)
- Fuller, Fisher, and the Art of the B-Movie Auteur (2018) (0)
- Philosophical Sirk (2022) (0)
- Review: Film: A Very Short Introduction by Michael Wood (2012) (0)
- Review: Firestorm: American Film in the Age of Terrorism by Stephen Prince (2011) (0)
- Bressonians on Bresson (2001) (0)
- Hagiopics from Hollywood (2016) (0)
- Classics and Novelties (2020) (0)
- Scorsese to the Rescue (Again) (2022) (0)
- Review: A Companion to Michael Haneke ed. Roy Grundmann (2012) (0)
- 5. Portrait of the Artist as a Major Player: From Pale Rider to Bird (2014) (0)
- Book Review: Stolen Glimpses, Captive Shadows: Writing on Film, 2002–2012 (2013) (0)
- Hitchcockiana (2021) (0)
- Book Review: François Truffaut: The Lost Secret (2013) (0)
- Criterion’s Collections (2021) (0)
- Guiltless Pleasures: A David Sterritt Film Reader (2005) (0)
- The Films of Jean-Luc Godard: Video and Television (1999) (0)
- The Best of 2016 (2017) (0)
- Reviews (2000) (0)
- The Fugitive, the Kaiser, and the Projectionist (2021) (0)
- From the Beginning of Time to the End of Days (2011) (0)
- The Beginning or the End (2020) (0)
- Hitchcock à la Carte, by Jan Olsson (Durham: Duke University Press, 2015) (2016) (0)
- Herzog, Martel, and Auteurism (2021) (0)
- 4. Robert Altman: Documentaries, Dreamscapes, and Dialogic Cinema (2019) (0)
- The Wandering Soap Opera of Raúl Ruiz (2019) (0)
- Sirk and Stahl (2019) (0)
- Grand Opera on the Silver Screen (2019) (0)
- Weber, Smalley, and Company (2018) (0)
- The Best of 2019 (2020) (0)
- Ermler and L'Herbier - Epics of the silent era (2020) (0)
- 5. The Beats and popular culture (2013) (0)
- Spike Lee's America (2013) (0)
- The Best of 2021 (2022) (0)
- Moving Viewers: American Film and the Spectator's Experienceby Carl PlantingaViolent Affect: Literature, Cinema, and Critique After Representationby Marco AbelDoubting Vision: Film and the Revelationist Traditionby Malcolm Turvey (2011) (0)
- The Bitter Tea of General Yen, Household Saints, Love Streams (2010) (0)
- Terry Gilliam : interviews (2004) (0)
- Angels, Demons, MacGuffins, and the Goldbergs (2009) (0)
- 4. Any Which Way He Can: From Misty and Harry to High Plains Drifter and The Outlaw Josey Wales (2014) (0)
- Geopolitical Rarities in California (2017) (0)
- Adare in the Underworld: Suspicious Characters, Discarded Histories (2022) (0)
- Speaking and Writing about Godard: A Response to Nochimson and Sutton (2000) (0)
- Hollywood Incoherent: Narration in Seventies Cinema by Todd Berliner. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2010 (2014) (0)
- Martin Scorsese’s World Cinema Project (2020) (0)
- Classical Cinema (2017) (0)
- Project Shirley (2017) (0)
- Review: Clééo de 5 àà 7 by Steven Ungar; 8½½ by D. A. Miller (2010) (0)
- The Films of Jean-Luc Godard: Introduction (1999) (0)
- The Best Cinema of 2020 (2021) (0)
- Book Review: The British Film Institute, the Government and Film Culture, 1933–2000 (2012) (0)
- Six Books About Scorsese (2009) (0)
- Book Review: The Cinema of Tarkovsky: Labyrinths of Space and Time by Nariman Skakov | Zona by Geoff Dyer (2012) (0)
- The Films of Clint Eastwood: Critical Perspectives ed. by Matt Wanat and Leonard Engel (review) (2019) (0)
- Bad Mixings: Dirty Harry, Social Anomaly, and the Gospel of Healthy-Mindedness (2015) (0)
- Spellbound in Darkness (2010) (0)
- Book Review: Five Came Back: A Story of Hollywood and the Second World War by Mark Harris (2014) (0)
- Must We Kill the Thing We Love? Emersonian Perfectionism and the Films of Alfred Hitchcock by William Rothman (2014) (0)
- The Beats and Visual Culture (2017) (0)
- A Review of “Harmony and Dissent: Film and Avant-Garde Movements in the Early Twentieth Century” (2011) (0)
- Manoel de Oliveira, 1908–2015 (2015) (0)
- A Grammar of Murder: Violent Scenes and Film Formby Karla OelerDeath in Classical Hollywood Cinemaby Boaz Hagin (2011) (0)
- Robert Altman (2019) (0)
- A Regional Festival with a Global Reach (2021) (0)
- Kerouac, Artaud, and the Baroque Period of the Three Stooges (1998) (0)
- The Best and Worst of 2018 (2019) (0)
- Suspense, Malaise, and the Movies (2016) (0)
- The Press Gang (2021) (0)
- The Best (and Worst) of 2022 (2022) (0)
- Visions and Revisions: Hollywood's Alternative Worlds (2010) (0)
- The Films of Jean-Luc Godard: Nouvelle Vague (1999) (0)
- Hitchcock, Hume, and the Matrix of Modern Cinema: John Orr (2005) Hitchcock and Twentieth-Century Cinema (2007) (0)
- The Cinema of Krzysztof Kieslowski: Variations on Destiny and Chance:The Cinema of Krzysztof Kieslowski: Variations on Destiny and Chance (2005) (0)
- Haskell's Spielberg, Insdorf's Has (2018) (0)
- Wholly Communion: Scenario, Film, Novelization (2011) (0)
- 7. Eastwood’s Politics: ‘Leave everyone alone’ (2014) (0)
- The New York (Virtual) Film Festival (2020) (0)
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