Mind over Media: Essays on Film and Television - Softcover

Stone, Jennifer

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0933529058 ISBN 13: 9780933529052

Publisher: Cayuse Pr, 1987

Synopsis

Essays on film and television by noted Berkeley, California writer and radio personality Jennifer Stone.

About this title

About the Author:

Jennifer Stone was born in Tucson, Arizona in December, 1933. She received her B.A. in theatre arts from Mills College in 1955 and her M.A. in creative writing from San Francisco State in 1975. She spent many years in the theatre and a few years in the public schools. She was married from 1957 until 1966. Her sons were born in1960 and 1962. Her weekly radio shows can be hears on KPFA Pacifica Public Radio, 94FM in Berkeley, California.

From Publishers Weekly:

This collection by a San Francisco Bay-area actor and freelance film and television critic features diverse subjects and an ever-changing focus: discussions of science fiction and documentaries, of film biographies of writers Oscar Wilde and Stevie Smith, and of prose biographies of master filmmakers Hitchcock, Griffith and Welles. Stone devotes an entire essay to one film, and then crams nearly 20 movies into another piece; she spills anecdotes about herself, her children and friends as easily as she attempts a penetrating feminist analysis. This unpredictable style makes the essays intensely readable but ultimately fragments the study and undermines its thoughtfulness. What Stone does best is evoke the visual and emotional aspects of movies: readers will see John Hurt and Alan Bates as feuding aspects of the same man in the obscure The Shout, and feel the terror in Primal Fear, to date "the only acceptable film study on rape." Stone possesses an energetic, appealing voice, but it requires some serious editing.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Cayuse Pr
• Publication date: 1987
• ISBN 10: 0933529058
• ISBN 13: 9780933529052
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 167