Robert Warshow
Robert Warshow (1917–1955) was an American author associated with the
Army Signal Corps during World War II.[3]
Among the articles published in Warshow's short lifetime were "The Westerner" and "The Gangster as Tragic Hero", analyses of the
Stalinists in a brutally honest light. In an critique of The Crucible Warshow argued that Arthur Miller was not as competent a dramatist as was perceived. After Fredric Wertham and Gershon Legman, Warshow was the first serious critic to write about EC Comics and its Mad magazine, albeit from a measured and equivocal perspective.[4]
Warshow died of a heart attack at the age of 37. Most of his published work was collected in the book The Immediate Experience in 1962. An expanded edition was released by Harvard University Press in 2001.
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Book
- Robert Warshow: Immediate Experience. Movies, Comics, Theatre and Other Aspects of Popular Culture, Doubleday, Garden City, NY, 1962. 282 pp. With a contribution by Lionel Trilling.
- Robert Warshow: The Immediate Experience. Movies, Comics, Theatre and Other Aspects of Popular Culture, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., 2001. 302 pp. Expanded reprint, including Lionel Trilling, new contributions from David Denby and Stanley Cavell.
References
- ^ Shulevitz, Judith (December 30, 2001). "THE CLOSE READER; The Moviegoer". The New York Times. Retrieved October 27, 2020.
- ^ Belasco, Daniel (February 15, 2002). "The Man In The Audience". The Times of Israel. Retrieved October 27, 2020.
- ISBN 978-0-1953-4540-7.
- ^ Murray, Noel (April 29, 2002). "Robert Warshow: The Immediate Experience: Movies, Comics, Theatre And Other Aspects Of Popular Culture". The A.V. Club. Retrieved October 27, 2020.
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