The Hollywood legend talks about her four marriages, her leading men, her feud with a well-known co-star, her longing to have a child, and her favorite roles.

    has come to be a kind of nagging embarrassment to criticism." Despite the rise of academic trends like cultural studies, we don't have a criticism that speaks to the actual, immediate experience of seeing and responding to popular culture. Warshow argued that the evasion of the popular arts in his time was due to a "disastrous vulgarization of intellectual life" that corrupted American liberalism from the 1930s to the 1950s. Political correctness then, like political correctness since the 1960s, had led to "organized mass disingenuousness" on the part of intellectuals who turned away from developing a vocabulary for describing the immediate, aesthetic experience and used irony instead, even about their own experiences. But, says Warshow, "a whole literature cannot be built on irony." Warshow died a young man of 37 in 1955, but he left as his legacy a series of essays for The Partisan Review, Commentary, The Nation, and other journals. These writings, the cornerstone of a major account of the role of mass culture in our lives, were first gathered and published as a book in 1962. A number of the essays have been anthologized frequently, and the book as a whole has achieved cult status for a number of discerning critics.

    Seventy-five years after the debut of the classic American movie, this commemorative volume, LIFE The Wizard of Oz: 75 Years Along the Yellow Brick Road, includes rare and never-before-seen photography about the iconic film, intimate portraits of the film's stars, and exclusive commentary from renowned contributors, including TIME movie critic Richard Corliss. This celebratory book not only covers the history of the movie, but also explores the legends, lore and the effect the movie had on the nation's film industry and culture- The Wizard of Oz was one of the first color films created.

    Each of the 69 entries includes a selection of excellent stills and a brief textual description of the movie.The titles run like a list of academy award winners: The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Potemkin, The Passion of Joan of Arc, Don Quixote, La Maternells, The Childhood of Maxim Gorky, The Dybbuk, Stairway to Heaven, Beauty and the Beast, Rashomon, Times Gone By, La Strada, Hiroshima, Mon Amour, Ugetsu, Apu Trilogy, Wild Strawberries, L’Avventura, and many more.

    Part 1 was released in 1945, but the second part was banned and Eisenstein died before he could complete the re-editing."

    While the major filmmakers and stars of silent movies generally did not survive the transition to sound, their achievements in a pioneer industry and art form enjoy new recognition and acclaim today. Directors like D. W. Griffith and Erich von Stroheim, actors like Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford and Lillian Gish are the commanding figures in a narrative that is strong in depth of research and enlivened by the author's infectious delight in his subject.