People only die of love in movies : film writing by Jim Ridley / edited by Steve Haruch.
"Combining a cineaste's deep knowledge of film with a slack-jawed kid's sense of wonder at the medium, Jim Ridley wrote about movies in a way few others could. At the time of his unexpected death in 2016, Ridley was editor-in-chief of the alt-weekly Nashville Scene, the paper where he...
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| Language: | English |
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Nashville, Tennessee :
Vanderbilt University Press,
[2018]
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| Summary: | "Combining a cineaste's deep knowledge of film with a slack-jawed kid's sense of wonder at the medium, Jim Ridley wrote about movies in a way few others could. At the time of his unexpected death in 2016, Ridley was editor-in-chief of the alt-weekly Nashville Scene, the paper where he started his career in 1989, and where he gained a loyal audience with his incisive, wide-ranging reviews. He reveled in the joy and mischief, dwelled on the beauty and the violence and navigated the mythology of cinema with a sharpness and an enduring curiosity that also earned him the respect of his peers around the country. People Only Die of Love in Movies takes its title from a line in the 1964 movie musical The Umbrellas of Cherbourg -- a timeless example of the kind of magic that only film can summon -- and collects 72 of Ridley's film reviews, essays and journalistic works. It spans three decades of his writing and includes selections from the Nashville Scene, Village Voice and Criterion Collection"-- |
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| Item Description: | Includes index. |
| Physical Description: | 254 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-248) and index, |
| ISBN: | 9780826522061 0826522068 |