The Press Gang: Writings on Cinema from New York Press, 1991-2011 Linocut Megumi Matsubara

Megumi Matsubara

when the world is read through analogies

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The Press Gang: Writings on Cinema from New York Press, 1991-2011 Linocut Megumi MatsubaraSeven Stories Press, 2020, Softcover, 480 pages, 25. 5 20 cm Comprising of the kind of long form criticism that is all too rare these days, the weekly film columns in the NYPress included polemics, reviews, interviews, festival reports and features. A far cry from what is often derisively termed the 'consumer report' mode of criticism, Cheshire, Seitz and White were passionately engaged with the film culture of both their own time, and what had come