National Society of Film Critics Video Guides

  FLESH AND BLOOD:
On Sex, Violence, and Censorship

LOVE AND HISSES:
The Hottest Movie Controversies

THEY WENT THATAWAY:
Redefining Film Genres

PRODUCED AND ABANDONED:
The Best Films You've Never Seen

       
 

FLESH AND BLOOD
Film Criticism
392 pages
Paper, $14.95
1-56279-076-5
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  FLESH AND BLOOD
The National Society of Film Critics on Sex, Violence, and Censorship
Peter Keough, editor

The nation's foremost film critics discuss sex and violence in the movies, challenging current trends toward censorship.

Flesh and Blood includes some of the most provocative work of many of our finest critics, raising the level of discourse on the subjects of sex, violence, and censorship in film. It addresses such topics as voyeurism, women as aggressors, alternative life-styles, slasher films, and issues of exploitation. It not only offers a spectrum of opinion on an issue of current interest but it also entertains with the most intelligent and well-written reviews of hot contemporary films to be found anywhere.

       
       
 

LOVE AND HISSES
Film Criticism
560 pages
Paper, $16.95
1-56279-031-5
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  LOVE AND HISSES: The National Society of Film Critics
Sound Off on the Hottest Movie Controversies
Peter Rainer, editor

Love and Hisses pits the nation's leading critics against each other as they take opposing sides on the most hotly debated movie controversies.

"A remarkably stinulating book, high in entertainment."
Backstage/Shoot

"Love and Hisses will delight those who have found themselves in disagreement with a critic about a particular controversial film."
Los Angeles Daily News

"Revealing and introspective insight on how film reviewers differ in their standards and analyses of movies they have come to praise or reproach."
Entertainment Today

       
       
 

THEY WENT THATAWAY
Film Criticism
392 pages
Paper, $16.95
1-56279-055-2
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  THEY WENT THATAWAY: Redefining Film Genres
Richard T. Jameson, editor

The nation's top film critics discuss and review the movies and players who have defined or redefined movie genres, and thereby our responses to film itself.

They Went Thataway examines the movies that have defined their genres — and those that have transcended genre conventions. In ninety-three impassioned and enlightening essays, members of the highly regarded NSFC offer their thoughts on thirteen film genres — from Westerns (Unforgiven) and gangster films (Goodfellas) to star vehicles (Pretty Woman and Top Gun). Plus: a checklist of "Genre Classics" — don't miss films in each category — and an index of films, directors, and actors.

       
 

PRODUCED AND ABANDONED
Film Criticism
392 pages
Paper, $9.95
0-916515-84-2
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  PRODUCED AND ABANDONED: The Best Films You've Never Seen
Michael Sragow, editor

Neglected gems available on video.

"American criticism at its best."
Variety

"A hip fan's guide to films still in limbo, somewhere between initial failure and sainthood."
Voice Literary Supplement

"A rich resource for video renters with a sense of adventure."
American Film

       
      THE NATIONAL SOCIETY OF FILM CRITICS is a group of more than forty writers from major general-interest publications. From its founding in 1966 through 1971, the membership wrote mostly for New York-based national magazines. From 1972 on, the group has grown to include writers for daily, weekly, monthly, and quarterly publications across the country, from mainstream newspapers like the Los Angeles Times and Washington Post to alternative weeklies like the Chicago Reader and the Boston Phoenix.