American movie critics: an anthology from the silents until now

Photoplay of action ; Artistic position of Douglas Fairbanks and The thief of Bagdad production / Vachel Lindsay --

Function of the photoplay / Hugo Münsterberg --

Cabinet of Dr. Caligari ; Nanook of the north ; A woman of Paris ; Manhandled ; Temptress ; What price glory? / Carl Sandburg --

Ten commandments ; Greed / Robert E. Sherwood --

New Chaplin comedy (The gold rush) / Edmund Wilson --

from Appendix from Moronia : note on technic / H.L. Mencken --

Passion of Joan of Arc / H.D. --

"Talkies" / Alexander Bakshy --

"A" in the art of the movie and kino ; Remarks of D.W. Griffith / Harry Alan Potamkin --

from An hour with the movies and the talkies / Gilbert Seldes --

Anna Christie ; Good art, good propaganda / Pare Lorentz --

King Kong ; Invisible man / William Troy --

Parachute jumper ; Hallelujah I'm a bum ; Ladies they talk about ; Our betters ; King Kong ; Night flight ; Camille ; Last of Mrs. Cheyney ; Personal property ; Another dawn ; A day at the races / Cecilia Ager --

Devil is a woman ; Future of color / André Sennwald --

Film critic of tomorrow / Rudolf Arnheim --

Dancing in films / Lincoln Kierstein --

Charge of the light brigade / Meyer Levin

It's up to the kiddies (Stand up and cheer) ;

Stars and garters (Belle of the nineties) ; Artist among the flickers (Three songs about Lenin) ; Arms and men (Lives of a Bengal lancer) ; Words and music (Broadway melody of 1936) ; In a dry month (Hands across the table) ; Cagney : great guy ; Through the looking glass (Stage door) ; Walt Disney's Grimm reality (Snow White and the seven dwarfs) ; Hitchcock in Hollywood (Foreign correspondent) ; For better, for worse (Time in the sun) ; Handsome is (High Sierra) ; Citizen Welles ; Welles and his wonders II / Otis Ferguson --

Gone with the wind is more dangerous than Birth of a nation / Melvin B. Tolson --

Griffith and the technical innovations / Paul Goodman --

Song of Bernadette ; Annual wrap-up of 1944 ; A great film (The story of G.I. Joe) ; Lost weekend ; Shoeshine ; Day of wrath / James Agee --

Introduction to From Caligari to Hitler / Siegfried Kracauer --

Gangster as tragic hero ; A feeling of sad dignity (Limelight) / Robert Warshow --

Shadow and the act / Ralph Ellison --

Got a match? / Martha Wolfenstein and Nathan Leites --

Reluctant war hero (Casablanca) / Barbara Deming --

Underground films ; White elephant art vs. termite art ; Kitchen without kitsch (with Patricia Patterson) / Manny Farber --

Double into quadruple indemnity ; Warhol's new sex film (Blue movie) / Parker Tyler --

A king in New York / Eugene Archer --

Panther Panchali and Aparajito ; A note on la belle, la perfectly swell, romance / Arlene Croce --

Creative joy of the independent film-maker ; Renoir and plotless cinema ; Marilyn Monroe and the loveless world (The misfits) ; On Andy Warhol's Sleep ; Not everything that is fun is cinema (A hard day's night) ; On Bresson and Une femme douce / Jonas Mekas --

Misfits ; L'avventura ; Lola Montes / Stanley Kauffmann --

Birds ; La guerre est finie ; Falstaff and A countess from Hong Kong ; Science fiction : The Forbin project ; Billy Wilder ; Billy Wilder reconsidered ; John Wayne's strange legacy / Andrew Sarris --

Imagination of disaster / Susan Sontag --

Band of outsiders ; Funny girl ; Trash, art, and the movies ; McCabe & Mrs. Miller / Pauline Kael --

8 1/2 / Dwight Macdonald --

Cold blood : cheap fiction / Renata Adler --

Runners / Donald Phelps --

Midnight cowboy ; Wild bunch ; Easy rider ; Z ; They shoot horses, don't they? ; Patton ; Zabriskie Point ; Is Fiddler more De Mille than Sholem Aleichem? / Vincent Canby --

These are a few of my favorite things ; Buñuel / William S. Pechter --

Woman's film ; Sophisticated interiors ; Melancholy males or movies about men turning 50 / Molly Haskell --

Notes on film noir / Paul Schrader --

Last picture show ; Jaundice of the soul (Chinatown) / John Simon --

Blue notes / Brendan Gill --

M*A*S*H / Richard Corliss --

from The devil finds work (Lady sings the blues) / James Baldwin --

Bitter tears of Petra von Kant / Penelope Gilliatt --

Keaton quiet / Walter Kerr --

Bad movies ; Film critic of tomorrow, today / J. Hoberman --

Cons and pros (The lady Eve) / Stanley Cavell --

Blue velvet ; Sam Fuller : movie bozo / Richard Schickel --

Rebirth of a nation (Do the right thing) ; Malcolm X'd again (Malcolm X) / Armond White --

Real thing / David Denby --

Italian system / Geoffrey O'Brien --

A boy named Sioux (Dances with wolves) / Paul Rudnick (aka Libby Gelman-Waxner) --

Cary Grant ; Howard Hawks / David Thomson --

Cool cynicism : Pulp fiction / Bell Hooks --

Titanic sinks again (spectacularly) / Kenneth Turan --

In dreams begin responsibilities (Eyes wide shut) / Jonathan Rosenbaum --

Trouble in paradise / Roger Ebert --

Gladiator / Stuart Klawans --

Imitation of life / James Harvey --

Of love and the city (In the mood for love) / Kent Jones --

On Val Lewton's The seventh victim / John Ashbery --

Ratpacks and pack males / Carrie Rickey --

Saying "ain't" and playing "Dixie" : rhetoric and comedy in Judge Priest / Gilberto Perez --

Good and evil locked in violent showdown (The passion of the Christ) ; Most overrated film of the year (Sideways) / A.O. Scott --

High hopes (The royal Tenenbaums) ; Not-so-nice kitty (The cat in the hat) ; Once disaster hits, it seems never to end (A history of violence) / Manohla Dargis --

United 93 / Stephanie Zacharek --

To catch a predator (Zodiac) / Nathan Lee --

New media and old storytelling / David Bordwell.