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[PDF READ ONLINE] Personal Views: Explorations in Film, Revised Edition (Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Studies) | Robin Wood, the renowned scholarly critic and writer on film, has prepared a new introduction and added three essays to his classic text Personal Views. This important book contains essays on a wide range of films and filmmakers and considers questions of the nature of film criticism and the critic. Wood, the proud "unreconstructed humanist," offers in this collection persuasive arguments for the importance of art, creativity, and personal response and also demonstrates these values in his analyses.Personal Views is the only book on cinema by Wood never to have been published in the United States.It contains essays on popular Hollywood directors such as Howard Hawks, Vincente Minnelli, and Leo McCarey as well as pieces on recognized auteurs like Max Ophuls, Orson Welles, Fritz Lang, and Josef von Sternberg and essays on art-film icons Jean-Luc Godard, Michelangelo Antonioni, and Kenji Mizoguchi. The writings that make up Personal Views appeared duing a pivotal time in both
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