{"product_id":"the-immediate-experience-movies-comics-theatre-and-other-aspects-of-popular-culture-9780674007260","title":"The Immediate Experience: Movies, Comics, Theatre, and Other Aspects of Popular Culture","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis collection of essays, which originally appeared as a book in 1962, is virtually the complete works of an editor of \u003ci\u003eCommentary\u003c\/i\u003e magazine who died, at age 37, in 1955. Long before the rise of Cultural Studies as an academic pursuit, in the pages of the best literary magazines of the day, Robert Warshow wrote analyses of the folklore of modern life that were as sensitive and penetrating as the writings of James Agee, George Orwell, and Walter Benjamin. Some of these essays--notably \"The Westerner,\" \"The Gangster as Tragic Hero,\" and the pieces on the \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMad Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, Arthur Miller's \u003ci\u003eThe Crucible\u003c\/i\u003e, and the Rosenberg letters--are classics, once frequently anthologized but now hard to find. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAlong with a new preface by Stanley Cavell, \u003ci\u003eThe Immediate Experience\u003c\/i\u003e includes several essays not previously published in the book--on Kafka and Hemingway--as well as Warshow's side of an exchange with Irving Howe.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Robert Warshow\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Harvard University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/30\/2002\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 352\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.95lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.48w x 1.03d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780674007260\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eEntertainment Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/22\/2002 pg. 140\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eVariety\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/11\/2002 pg. 39\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWarshow, Robert:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Robert Warshow (1917-1955) was a member of the community that has come to be known as the \"New York Intellectuals.\" He was an editor of Commentary magazine and an astute critic of cinema. He tragically died of a heart-attack at the age of 37.\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTrilling, Lionel:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - At the time of his death in 1975, Lionel Trilling was University Professor at Columbia University.\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eCavell, Stanley:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Stanley Cavell (1926-2018) was Walter M. Cabot Professor of Aesthetics and the General Theory of Value, Emeritus, at Harvard University. His numerous books include \u003ci\u003eThe Claim of Reason\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eCities of Words\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003ePhilosophy the Day after Tomorrow\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harvard University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45134677672051,"sku":"9780674007260","price":49.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_bf1abf62-0e9a-48ea-8c6c-8244997ecc99.jpg?v=1782390405","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/the-immediate-experience-movies-comics-theatre-and-other-aspects-of-popular-culture-9780674007260","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}