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Stanley Kauffmann
BornApril 24, 1916
New York City
DiedOctober 9, 2013(2013-10-09) (aged 97)
Manhattan
Occupation(s)Film and theater critic and author

Stanley Kauffmann (April 24, 1916 – October 9, 2013) was an American author, editor, and critic of film and theater.[1]

Career

Kauffmann started with The New Republic in 1958 and contributed film criticism to that magazine for the next five decades.[2]

Kauffmann worked as a acquisitions editor at Ballantine Books in 1953, where he acquired the novel Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury.[3] A couple of years later, while working as an editor at Alfred A. Knopf in 1959 he discovered a manuscript by Walker Percy entitled The Moviegoer. After a year of rewrites and revisions, the novel was published in 1961, and went on to win a National Book Award in 1962.[4]

He was featured in the 2009 documentary For the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism where he was shown discussing the beginnings of film criticism in America, and noting the important contributions of poet Vachel Lindsay, who was able to grasp that "the arrival of film was an important moment in the history of human consciousness."[5]

Personal

Kauffmann attended DeWitt Clinton High School in the Bronx, the University of New York where he received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1935, where he was an actor and stage manager with the Washington Square Players. He was a professor of English, Drama, and Film at City University of New York from 1973-76. He alaso and taught for years at the Yale School of Drama[6] He married Laura Cohen in 1943, and they had no children. Kauffmann died of pneumonia at St. Luke's Hospital in Manhattan on October 9, 2013. He was 97.[7]

Books on criticism

  • Regarding Film: Criticism and Comment. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, (2001).
  • Distinguishing Features: Film Criticism and Comment. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, (1994).
  • Field of View: Film Criticism and Comment. New York: Performing Arts Journal Publications, (1986).
  • Theater Criticisms. New York: Performing Arts Journal Publications, (1986).
  • Albums of Early Life. New Haven: Ticknor & Fields, (1980).
  • Before My Eyes: Film Criticism and Comment. New York: Harper & Row, (1980).
  • Persons of the Drama: Theater Criticism and Comment. New York: Harper & Row, (1976).
  • Living Images: Film Comment and Criticism. New York: Harper & Row, (1975).
  • American Film Criticism: From the Beginnings to "Citizen Kane"; Reviews of Significant Films at the Time They First Appeared [Editor, with Bruce Henstell]. New York: Liveright, (1972).
  • Figures of Light: Film Criticism and Comment. New York: Harper & Row, (1971).
  • A World on Film: Criticism and Comment. New York: Harper & Row, (1966).

References

  1. ^ Zeitchik, Steven. "Stanley Kauffmann dies: Film critic helped define a generation". latimes.com. Retrieved 2013-10-09.
  2. ^ Stanley Kauffmann The New Republic
  3. ^ Film Critic Stanley Kauffmann Dead at 97, ABC News, October 9, 2013.
  4. ^ Moore, H., Walker Percy's 'The Moviegoer:' A Publishing History, The Library Chronicle of the University of Texas. Vol. 22, Nos. 1-4, 1991-1992, pp. 123-143
  5. ^ For the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism at the TCM Movie Database
  6. ^ "Stanley Kauffmann". nndb.com. Retrieved 9 October 2013.
  7. ^ "Stanley Kauffmann, Erudite Film Critic, Dies at 97". NY Times. Retrieved 9 October 2013.

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