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FILMS OF ENDEARMENT
A Mother, a Son, and the 80s Movies that Defined Us
A poignant memoir of family, grief and resilience about a young man, his dynamic mother and the 80s movies they shared together.
This is a book about movies, and about how the movies we watch together as a family often define our families. Michael's mother raised him watching the films of the 80s and the ones they watched didn't star Schwarzenegger or Stallone. They featured women's stories. Michael, a prominent film critic, argues that the 80s was the Decade of the Actress and we have not since its like before or since.
A mix of film criticism and memoir, Films of Endearment shows us not only the stories of 10 remarkable and underappreciated films but also how they informed his family, his sensibility, and gave him - just as he gives us in this book - a new way of seeing.
Michael Koresky is a film critic, editor, and filmmaker, and the Editorial Director at New York's Museum of the Moving Image. Previously he was the Director of Editorial and Creative Strategy for Film at Lincoln Center; Director of Publications and Marketing for New York's Metrograph Theater; and the Managing Editor and Staff Writer for The Criterion Collection. Koresky is the author of the book Terence Davies, published by the University of Illinois Press in 2014, and has written on film for Film Comment, The Criterion Current, Sight & Sound, Cinema Scope, The Village Voice, Film Quarterly, Cineaste, Filmmaker, The American Interest, and Indiewire. He has served as an adjunct professor at The New School, where he taught queer cinema in the film and media department. Koresky was named one of the "100 Most Influential People in Brooklyn Culture" by Brooklyn Magazine in 2016.
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Published 2021-05-04 by Hanover Square |