Stanley Kauffmann (born April 24, 1916, in New York City, New York) is an American author, editor, and critic of film and theatre. He has written for The New Republic since 1958 and currently contributes film criticism to that magazine.[1]
Stanley Kauffmann is featured in the 2009 documentary For the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism where he is shown discussing the beginnings of film criticism in America, and noting the important contributions of poet Vachel Lindsay, who was able to grasp that "the arrival of film was an important moment in the history of human consciousness."[2]
While working as an editor at Alfred A. Knopf in 1959 he discovered a manuscript by Walker Percy entitled The Moviegoer. After a year of rewrites and revisions, the novel was published in 1961, and went on to win a National Book Award in 1962.[3]
Books on criticism [edit]
- Regarding Film: Criticism and Comment. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, (2001).
- Distinguishing Features: Film Criticism and Comment. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, (1994).
- Field of View: Film Criticism and Comment. New York: Performing Arts Journal Publications, (1986).
- Theater Criticisms. New York: Performing Arts Journal Publications, (1986).
- Albums of Early Life. New Haven: Ticknor & Fields, (1980).
- Before My Eyes: Film Criticism and Comment. New York: Harper & Row, (1980).
- Persons of the Drama: Theater Criticism and Comment. New York: Harper & Row, (1976).
- Living Images: Film Comment and Criticism. New York: Harper & Row, (1975).
- American Film Criticism: From the Beginnings to "Citizen Kane"; Reviews of Significant Films at the Time They First Appeared [Editor, with Bruce Henstell]. New York: Liveright, (1972).
- Figures of Light: Film Criticism and Comment. New York: Harper & Row, (1971).
- A World on Film: Criticism and Comment. New York: Harper & Row, (1966).
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