The Farber Mystery

Canonizing the work of American film criticism's most remarkable figure
by Jonathan Rosenbaum   posted Sep 22, 2009

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Manny Farber  |  film criticism  |  Hollywood  |  James Agee  |  painting  |  book review  |  Robert Polito  |  auteurism

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THE AUTHOR

Jonathan Rosenbaum served as film critic for the Chicago Reader from 1987 to 2007. His most recent book is Goodbye Cinema, Hello Cinephilia: Film Culture in Transition (University of Chicago Press, 2010).

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