Created by Matt Zoller Seitz
Directed by Judith Carter
“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
Haruki Murakami
With Hollywood Going Ape these days, we're monkey-ing around and offering 20% Off the ENTIRE Sci-Fi Collection!
Ending May 13th, 2024
And we're so excited about film & criticism:
MZS had 14 pieces published in the last 14 days in NY Magazine, Vulture.com, Ebert.com w/ articles coming For D Magazine & Texas Highways
April 21-April 23 2024 20% off History & Criticism Collection!
Called by Andrew Sarris "the most perceptive study of Welles's art," this classic work of American cinema studies is now available in paperback, in a revised 2nd edition that includes a new introduction and a new concluding chapter as well as an expanded and updated filmography and bibliography.
Prodigy, aesthete, rebel, actor, director, and cinematic magician, Orson Welles for almost half a century has been one of the most written about least understood figures of international cinema. This illuminating examination of his flamboyant career in film, from Citizen Kane to F for Fake, puts Welle's work into historical context and reveals the political and psychological implications of his films as well as the "playful and sometimes troubling autobiographical references." Using frame enlargements, Naremore uncovers the idiosyncratic qualities of Welles's style. He offers important new insight into such classic films as Touch of Evil, The Stranger, The Trial, Chimes at Midnight, and The Lady from Shanghai.
About The Author
JAMES NAREMORE is director of the Film Studies Program and professor of English and comparative literature at Indiana University. His other books on film include The Filmguide to Psycho and Acting in the Cinema. ~ from original book cover.
Publisher: Southern Methodist University Press - Dallas 1989
ISBN: 0-87074-299-X
Weight: 1.25lbs
Copy is pristine for a book of it's age. One sign stamp on cover page from original store copy. Usual shelf wear and pages are like new/pristine.
MZS.Press is the online arts bookstore founded by author, critic, and filmmaker Matt Zoller Seitz and directed by Judith Carter. It offers new, used, signed, collectible, and rare books on film, TV, music, photography, and the visual arts. The store was launched in 2019 on a different platform and has expanded to incorporate arts books published by MZSPress's private imprint: titles currently include Seitz's The Deadwood Bible: A Lie Agreed Upon and Dreams of Deadwood, about the HBO Western, and Walter Chaw's A Walter Hill Film.
Our deepest wish is to promote, encourage, and distribute work by small presses, academic presses, and individuals. Extraordinary work tends to get swallowed up on giant platforms like Amazon and Barnes & Noble. The store's inventory of nearly 1000 volumes is currently in the process of being reconstructed after its relocation from Cincinnati, Ohio, to Dallas, Texas. The titles featured here are personally selected by a group of curators and advisors, including Seitz, Carter, and an array of critics, artists, journalists, educators, publishers, and arts mavens who are known for their ability to suss out what Seitz's jazz musician dad liked to call "the good sh*t."
“Since MZS is the brains behind the brand and concept, I guess that makes me the brawn. Even though my 'gun show' looks more like a water pistol exhibit in a toy store window...”
Matt Zoller Seitz
Critic, Author, Filmmaker, MZS Press Creator
Matt Zoller Seitz is the Editor at Large and film critic of RogerEbert.com; a staff writer for New York Magazine and Vulture.com, and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in criticism. His writing on film and TV has appeared in Sight and Sound, The New York Times, Salon.com, The New Republic and Rolling Stone. Seitz is the founder and original editor of the influential film blog The House Next Door, now a part of Slant Magazine.
Seitz has written, narrated, edited or produced over a hundred hours’ worth of video essays about cinema history and style for The Museum of the Moving Image, Salon.com and Vulture, among other outlets such as Texas Highways and AARP. His five-part 2009 video essay Wes Anderson: The Substance of Style was spun off into the hardcover book The Wes Anderson Collection. This book and its follow-up, The Wes Anderson Collection: Grand Budapest Hotel were New York Times bestsellers.
Other Seitz books include the New York Times bestellers The Sopranos Sessions and Mad Men Carousel; TV (The Book), The Deadwood Bible: A Lie Agreed Upon, and The Wes Anderson Collection: The French Dispatch. He is also an interviewer, moderator, and film programmer who has curated and hosted film and TV presentations for the Museum of the Moving Image, IFC Center, San Francisco's Roxie Cinema, and other venues. He is currently launching a Dallas extension of his MZS Film Series at the historic Texas Theater.
Judith is quoted as saying "his hobbies include exotic dancing, moonwalking, and affixing masking tape labels to every food item in the refrigerator, including eggs. Oh and he has the attention span of a gnat." MZS agreed to it all except the moonwalking.