Negative Space by Manny Farber (Hardcover First Edition)

Published by Studio Vista, 1971
Sewn bound hardcover
First UK printing
288 pages
8.5x6 inches

Near Fine book in Very Good price-clipped dust jacket. Comes in removable protective Brodart mylar cover.

"A sturdy classic, representing a quarter of a century of Farber’s pioneering, radical exploration of film art that took in everything from Warner Bros. cartoons in 1943 to Godard, Michael Snow, and Luis Buñuel in the late Sixties—with remarkable studies of such figures as Preston Sturges, Val Lewton, Howard Hawks, and various actors in between."—Jonathan Rosenbaum

Manny Farber, one of the most important critics in movie history, championed the American action film—the bravado of Howard Hawks, the art brut styling of Samuel Fuller, the crafty, sordid entertainments of Don Siegel—at a time when other critics dismissed the genre. His witty, incisive criticism later worked exacting language into an exploration of the feelings and strategies that went into low-budget and radical films as diverse as Michael Snow's Wavelength, Werner Herzog’s Fata Morgana, and Chantal Akerman’s Jeanne Dielman. Negative Space gathers Farber's most influential writings, making this an indispensable collection for all lovers of film.