A Writer of Our Time

Informationen zum Autor Joshua Sperling has written on film, art and culture for a range of publications including Brooklyn Rail , Guernica , Senses of Cinema , Film Quarterly , Jump Cut , Asymptote , Film Criticism , French Forum, and Bullett Magazine . He received a dual Ph.D. in Comparative Literature and Film & Media Studies from Yale University; his dissertation on John Berger was awarded special distinction. He also holds an M.F.A. in Fiction from Brooklyn College and is currently a visiting professor of Cinema Studies at Oberlin College. Klappentext The first biography of John Berger since his death in January 2017, reflecting on how the life and work of the great critic reconciled the often reductively divided worlds of politics and aesthetics. Zusammenfassung The first intellectual biography of the life and work of John Berger

Product details

• Authors: Joshua Sperling
• Assisted by: Leo Hollis (Editor)
• Publisher: Verso
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 13.11.2018
• EAN: 9781786637420
• ISBN: 978-1-78663-742-0
• No. of pages: 304
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 242 mm x 28 mm
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; Theory of art, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Philosophers, Biography: general, ART / Criticism & Theory, History of art / art & design styles, History of Art