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Immediate Experience: Movies, Comics, Theatre, and Other Aspects of Popular Culture  
Author: Robert Warshow
ISBN: 0674007263
Format: Handover
Publish Date: June, 2005
 
     
     
   Book Review

Steve Vineberg, Boston Phoenix, May 24, 2002
The quality of Warshow's prose matches the quality of his thinking...Read Warshow and feel your mind expand.

Craig Teper, Variety, March 17, 2002
[P]rovides the most complete record available of the work of...such a critic, whose ability to inspire remains fully intact.

Troy Patterson, Entertainment Weekly, February 22, 2002
Long out of print, now reissued and expanded,...likely to reestablish its author as a preeminent observer of American pop.

Midge Decter, Commentary, April 1, 2002
To read these pieces in any order whatsoever is to come into contact with a unique mind.

Michael Pakenham, Baltimore Sun, May 17, 2002
This is both nostalgic and provocative social criticism.

Book Description
This collection of essays, which originally appeared as a book in 1962, is virtually the complete works of an editor of Commentary magazine who died, at age 37, in 1955. Long before the rise of Cultural Studies as an academic pursuit, in the pages of the best literary magazines of the day, Robert Warshow wrote analyses of the folklore of modern life that were as sensitive and penetrating as the writings of James Agee, George Orwell, and Walter Benjamin. Some of these essays--notably "The Westerner," "The Gangster as Tragic Hero," and the pieces on the New Yorker, Mad Magazine, Arthur Miller's The Crucible, and the Rosenberg letters--are classics, once frequently anthologized but now hard to find. Along with a new preface by Stanley Cavell, The Immediate Experience includes several essays not previously published in the book--on Kafka and Hemingway--as well as Warshow's side of an exchange with Irving Howe. "A legendary little book, partly because its author died at the age of 37, but mostly because it stands as a virtually unique representative from its period of a consistently open-minded, moral, aesthetic, and political engagement with commercial culture." --Louis Menand




Immediate Experience: Movies, Comics, Theatre, and Other Aspects of Popular Culture

FROM THE PUBLISHER

This collection of essays, which originally appeared as a book in 1962, is virtually the complete works of an editor of Commentary magazine who died, at age 37, in 1955. Long before the rise of Cultural Studies as an academic pursuit, in the pages of the best literary magazines of the day, Robert Warshow wrote analyses of the folklore of modern life that were as sensitive and penetrating as the writings of James Agee, George Orwell, and Walter Benjamin. Some of these essays--notably "The Westerner," "The Gangster as Tragic Hero," and the pieces on the New Yorker, Mad Magazine, Arthur Miller's The Crucible, and the Rosenberg letters--are classics, once frequently anthologized but now hard to find.

Along with a new preface by Stanley Cavell, The Immediate Experience includes several essays not previously published in the book--on Kafka and Hemingway--as well as Warshow's side of an exchange with Irving Howe.

     



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