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Opposable Thumbs: How Siskel & Ebert Changed Movies Forever, by Matt Singer. G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 2023, 352 pp.
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What Film Is Good For: On the Value of Spectatorship, edited by Julian Hanich and Martin P. Rossouw
Published 2024-07-01“…Roger Ebert famously referred to movies as “machines that generate empathy”, arguing that cinema had the power to transport viewers into the lived realities and emotional experiences of people all across the world who are “sharing this journey with us”. …”
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Carter Burwell’s Contribution to “the Coen touch”
Published 2021-02-01“…It will dwell specifically on what Roger Ebert, among others, called “the Coen touch”, a mix of dark humor and irony, sometimes resulting from a counterpoint created by contrasting the music and other features (image, dialogue), sometimes resulting from a sparse yet meaningful soundtrack.…”
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Of cats and men: Three semiotical views of the movie Le Chat
Published 2016-01-01“…Tis work will discuss about one entirely ordinary cat called Grefer (an unremarkable cat, as described by Roger Ebert), but, nevertheless, a key protagonist of the French movie Le Chat (1971) which is based on a “non Maigret” novel by George Simenon. …”
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