Publisher's Synopsis
During her long and distinguished career as a film critic, which included twenty-five years of 'the best job in the world', writing on film for The New Yorker magazine, Pauline Kael established herself as one of the most renowned and respected reviewers in the field. The breadth of her knowledge of film technique, her insight into the art of wit and candour, has endeared her to movie-lovers everywhere. Her work was more than just a sampler of current trends, tastes and opinions. It was always something more considered than that; a fact borne out by Kale's longer essays. Raising Kane and other Essays offers the best of Pauline Kael's more extended meditations on the movies, including the full text of her controversial account of the making of Citizen Kane, still considered be many to be the greatest motion picture ever made. Her sympathetic and insightful study of the career of Cary Grant, 'The Man From Dream City' appears alongside such prophetic analyses as 'Movies on Television', Fantasies of the Art-House Audience' and the classic 'Trash, Art and the Movies'. This volume also contains the most complete version to date of her landmark dissection of the film industry, 'The Making of The Group'. For the inimitable real thing, readers must turn to this volume to discover for themselves Pauline Kael's fluency, spark and perspicacity at their best.
