Sontag on Film

Now, more than thirty years after On Photography was first published, comes Sontag on Film: a collection of her writings and musings on films and cinema, gathered together here for the very first time by critic David Thomson and producer Tom Luddy. Inspired, vigorous and enlightening, the collection includes lucid discussions of the intersection between film and literature; in-depth studies of films and directors; and other such delightful and illuminating fragments as a list of Sontag''s top-ten films taken from a 1982 issue of Sight and Sound.

Sontag on Film is set to become a key work on the importance and significance of cinema in the modern world.

Praise for Susan Sontag:

''What ultimately matters about Sontag . . . is what she has defended: the life of the mind, and the necessity for reading and writing as "a way of being fully human"'' Hilary Mantel, Los Angeles Times Book Review

''Intellectually and imaginatively gifted to an extraordinary degree, she used her fearless intelligence to illuminate some of the deepest contradictions of contemporary life'' John Gray, New Statesman

''Complex and contradictory . . . one of America''s greatest public intellectuals'' Observer<>

Product details

• Authors: Susan Sontag, Sontag Susan
• Publisher: Hamish Hamilton
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.10.2025
• EAN: 9780241281154
• ISBN: 978-0-241-28115-4
• No. of pages: 352
• Dimensions: 153 mm x 234 mm x 40 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art; PERFORMING ARTS / Film / History & Criticism, Film Theory & Criticism, Film history, theory or criticism