C.A. Lejeune was among the first professional film critics in the world her columns in the ÊObserverÊ commanding a huge readership. Her career spanned the rise the great days and the beginning of the decline of the industry and the start of the television age. She saw the coming of sound and color of the star system and the wide screen. Her column was eagerly read for its percipience humor kindliness and good writing by people who never went to the cinema at all.ÞThis comprehensive selection of her articles essays and reviews from silent film days through to the 1960s has an autobiographical shape. She tells how she became a critic and what criticism means; she recalls her long acquaintance with Alfred Hitchcock and Alexander Korda Leslie Howard and Robert Donat personalities ä unforgettable and unforgotten ä who gave British cinema its finest hours.ÞFor students of film history this is essential reading. For lovers of old films it is an instructive and nostalgic delight. And like C.A. Lejeune's column it will appeal to any reader who appreciates good writing and civilized values.
This book title, The C.A. Lejeune Film Reader, ISBN: 9781557832078, by C. A. Lejeune, published by Applause (May 1, 2000) is available in hardcover. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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