Daily Archives: January 3, 2013

The Cinema of Eric Rohmer: Irony, Imagination, and the Social World by Jacob Leigh

January 3, 2013
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The Cinema of Eric Rohmer: Irony, Imagination, and the Social World by Jacob Leigh

I have written elsewhere of Eric Rohmer (http://stkarnick.com/?p=4963), one of the great film-makers. This is the latest book in English on him. It is aimed at the cinephile or Rohmer devotee, not the casual reader, and discusses most all of his films in detail. The author, a lecturer at the University of London, does not have an overarching thesis Rather, after a brief introduction, he discusses each film in detail. His appreciation of the sophistication of Rohmer’s visual sense and techniques is a strong point…

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A Nostalgic Look at the ’50s

January 3, 2013
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A Nostalgic Look at the ’50s

Mark Hendrickson writes: Why do so many intellectuals disparage the ’50s? Bashing “the man in the gray flannel suit” became an intellectual cause celebre. Writers vied to see who could heap the most scorn on the allegedly boring conformity of that receding decade, drawing supercilious caricatures of middle-class men and women of the era as superficial, plastic figures. My view of the ’50s is more benign. I recall it as a happy, safe time—almost a Golden Age in American history

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