Going Steady by Pauline Kael (Hardcover First Edition)

$45.00

Published by Little, Brown and Company, 1970
Sewn-bound hardcover
First printing
304 pages
8.5x6 inches

First edition. Book in Very Good condition. Dust jacket in Good+ condition with small chips and tears to top edge and sun fading on spine. Comes in removable protective Brodart mylar cover

Going Steady is the third collection of film reviews by the critic Pauline Kael, comprising the years 1968–1969, when she first began her film-reviewing duties at The New Yorker. The collection for the most part consists of reviews of individual films, but includes one long essay, entitled "Trash, Art, and the Movies ", perhaps the closest Kael comes to a manifesto defining her personal aesthetics in regards to films.

Published by Little, Brown and Company, 1970
Sewn-bound hardcover
First printing
304 pages
8.5x6 inches

First edition. Book in Very Good condition. Dust jacket in Good+ condition with small chips and tears to top edge and sun fading on spine. Comes in removable protective Brodart mylar cover

Going Steady is the third collection of film reviews by the critic Pauline Kael, comprising the years 1968–1969, when she first began her film-reviewing duties at The New Yorker. The collection for the most part consists of reviews of individual films, but includes one long essay, entitled "Trash, Art, and the Movies ", perhaps the closest Kael comes to a manifesto defining her personal aesthetics in regards to films.