The Rhapsodes: How 1940s Critics Changed American Film Culture Murray Engleheart bound as they are to

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The Rhapsodes: How 1940s Critics Changed American Film Culture Murray Engleheart bound as they are toPauline Kael, Andrew Sarris, and Roger Ebert were three of America's most revered and widely read film critics, more famous than many of the movies they wrote about. But their remarkable contributions to the burgeoning American film criticism of the 1960s and beyond were deeply influenced by four earlier critics: Otis Ferguson, James Agee, Manny Farber, and Parker Tyler. Throughout the 1930s and '40s, Ferguson, Agee, Farber, and Tyler scrutinized what