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  • Published: 21 November 2012
  • ISBN: 9780241145203
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 352

Sontag on Film



An essential collection of essays about film, from one of the most perceptive twentieth-century writers on cinema

More than thirty years after On Photography comes Sontag on Film: a collection of Sontag's writings and musings on films and cinema, gathered together for the first time by critic David Thomson and producer Tom Luddy. Inspired, vigorous and enlightening, it includes lucid discussions of the intersection between film and literature; in-depth studies of films and directors; and other such delightful and illuminating fragments as a list of Sontag's top-ten films taken from a 1982 issue of Sight and Sound.

This is an indispensable addition to the literature of film, and a wonderful reminder of the greatness of the writer.

  • Published: 21 November 2012
  • ISBN: 9780241145203
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 352

About the author

Susan Sontag

Susan Sontag was born in Manhattan in 1933 and studied at the universities of Chicago, Harvard and Oxford. Her non-fiction works include Against Interpretation, On Photography, Illness as Metaphor, AIDS and its Metaphors and Regarding the Pain of Others. She is also the author of four novels, a collection of stories and several plays. Her books are translated into thirty-two languages. In 2001 she was awarded the Jerusalem Prize for the body of her work, and in 2003 she received the Prince of Asturias Prize for Literature and the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade. She died in December 2004.

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Praise for Sontag on Film

Publisher's description. More than thirty years after On Photography comes Sontag on Film: a collection of Sontag's writings and musings on films and cinema, gathered for the first time by critic David Thomson and producer Tom Luddy. Inspired, vigorous and enlightening, it includes Sontag's lucid discussions of the intersection between film and literature and in-depth studies of films and directors.

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