Otis Ferguson
Lost Horizon (1937 film)
...it "an artistic tour de force . . . in all ways a triumph for Frank Capra." Less enthusiastic was Otis Ferguson, who in his review for National Board of Review Magazine observed,...
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Excerpt: 'A New Literary History of America'
...imagination, and quickly inspired a sympathetic body of critical writing, by James Agee, Graham Greene, Otis Ferguson, Manny Farber, and others. The descriptive excavations by these writers...
Review: 'For the Love of Movies'
It's a lot to cover in 81 minutes, and we get more breadth than depth. Peary mentions early writers like Otis Ferguson and James Agee, and glances at the long reign of the New York...
'Heroes and Villains': Pop culture criticism done right
...this music with a typical clear ear canal. In his introduction, David Yaffe compares Hajdu to Otis Ferguson and Edmund Wilson, and I would add that he's also working in the tradition of...
'Heroes and Villains': Pop culture from Elmer Fudd (yay!) to Josh Groban (boo!)
...this music with a typical clear ear canal. In his introduction, David Yaffe compares Hajdu to Otis Ferguson and Edmund Wilson, and I would add that he's also working in the tradition of...
Otis Ferguson
...Christgau as "the first rock critic" due to his appreciation of jazz and its impact on popular culture. Ferguson died in action during World War II. Upon its release, Ferguson wrote...
The Wizard of Oz: 70th Anniversary Collector's Edition (Review)
...New York Times' Frank Nugent called it "a delightful piece of wonder-working" that verdict wasn't unanimous. Otis Ferguson, writing in The New Republic, dismissed it as humorless,...
An insider looks at film criticism through the years
...of thinking and writing about movies, from poet Vachel Lindsay in the 1920s through the great Otis Ferguson, his career cut short by WWII, to Manny Farber, James Agee, and the...
Manny Farber, Iconoclastic Film Critic and Artist, Dies at 91
Mr. Farber's film criticism appeared in a bewildering variety of publications. In 1942 he succeeded Otis Ferguson as film critic for The New Republic, and in the late 1940s he became the...
