Film: The "Literary" Approach

The prominent vices of the latter are vices of ignorance, arrogance, and bad judgement: simple lack of acquaintance with a sufficient number of the entirely serious and intelligent films, like The Blue Angel, The Grand Illusion, Los Olvidados, and The Wild Child; judgments about the general superior...

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Published in:Literature film quarterly 1973, Vol.1 (1), p.76-83
Main Author: Ruhe, Edward L.
Format: Review
Language:English
Subjects:
Agee, James (1909-1955)
American literature
Children
Jargon
Linguistics
Literary criticism
Literature
Motion pictures
Poetry
Science
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Summary:The prominent vices of the latter are vices of ignorance, arrogance, and bad judgement: simple lack of acquaintance with a sufficient number of the entirely serious and intelligent films, like The Blue Angel, The Grand Illusion, Los Olvidados, and The Wild Child; judgments about the general superiority of literature based narrowly on the predictable inferiority of film adaptations to their classic originals; the importation into film criticism of literary approaches which are unsatisfactory in the first place, epitomized for some of us by the perpetual discovery of Christ-symbols in unexpected places; and so on The jargon of literary criticism can be exasperating to initiates and outsiders alike; and like the jargon of all the fine arts, it displays a treacherous transferability to any sister-art.
ISSN:0090-4260
2573-7597