Pauline Kael: A Life in the Dark

by Brian Kellow

Book Overview

Selected by "The New York Times Book Review" as a Notable Book of the Year The first biography of "The New Yorker's" influential, powerful, and controversial film critic. A decade after her death, Pauline Kael remains the most important figure in film criticism today, in part due to her own inimitable style and power within the film community and in part due to the enormous influence she has exerted over an entire subsequent generation of film critics...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0670023124
• ISBN13: 9780670023127
• Release Date: October 2011
• Publisher: Viking Books
• Length: 417 Pages
• Weight: 1.59 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.5" x 9.4"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher