blog riley
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| Blog Name: | blog riley |
| Url: | http://www.artsjournal.com/riley |
| Language: | English |
| Topics: | music, movies, tv |
| Description: | BIO NPR CRITIC, AUTHOR, PIANIST, and SPEAKER TIM RILEY reviews pop and classical music for NPR's HERE AND NOW, and has written for the HUFFINGTON POST, THE WASHINGTON POST, SALON.COM, NEWSWEEK, BOSTON MAGAZINE, the BOSTON PHOENIX, MONITOR RADIO, and STUDIO 360 (PRI). He was trained as a classical pianist at Oberlin and Eastman, and remains among the few critics who writes frequently about both "high" and "low" culture and their overlapping concerns. Riley is the author of: Tell Me Why: A Beatles Commentary (Knopf/Vintage 1988), which was hailed by the New York Times as bringing "new insight to the act we've known for all these years..." He has also written Hard Rain: A Dylan Commentary (Knopf/Vintage 1992), Madonna: Illustrated (Hyperion 1992), and Fever: How Rock'n'Roll Transformed Gender in America (Picador 2005). RILEY ROCK INDEX.com http://www.rileyrockindex.com |
| Popularity: | 14 Followers |
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I've been planning a post devoted to some of the screamers I've been compiling from the Farber anthology, but first Duncan Shepherd from the San Diego Reader: "It is highly salutary to read what was written about such movies before any ossification of critical orthodoxy. The close-up and in-context view of, let's say, Casablanca from Farber and from Agee will offer a truer perspective than its placement on a pedestal in spot number two on the AFI list of the 100 Greatest American Movies. Observes Farber: "Bogart's humanitarian killer, who was disillusioned apparently at his mother's breas
I've been planning a post devoted to some of the screamers I've been compiling from the Farber anthology, but first Duncan Shepherd from the San Diego Reader: "It is highly salutary to read what was written about such movies before any ossification of critical orthodoxy. The close-up and in-context view of, let's say, Casablanca from Farber and from Agee will offer a truer perspective than its placement on a pedestal in spot number two on the AFI list of the 100 Greatest American Movies. Observes Farber: "Bogart's humanitarian killer, who was disillusioned apparently at his mother's breas
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