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J. Hoberman

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In 2006, while reviewing his favorite films of the year, Hoberman wrote, "A curious form of journalism, film reviewing is highly topical yet essentially timeless. It consists of reporting week after week on out-of-body experiences in a parallel universe—subject to its own laws but intermittently
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laid off Hoberman in a move to cut costs. Hoberman said, "I have no regrets and whatever sadness I feel is outweighed by a sense of gratitude. Thirty-three years is a long time to be able to do something that you love to do, to champion things you want to champion, and to even get paid for it."
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visited by millions of others and filled with references to so-called real life." "From a purely subjective point of view, the film event that affected me most deeply would be the two-day screening of
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in the 1970s, became a full-time staff writer in 1983, and was the newspaper's senior film critic from 1988 to 2012. In 1981, he coined the term "vulgar modernism" to describe the "
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Hoberman and his wife, a social worker, married in 1974. They have two daughters. He is an atheist.
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had only a single public show—too few to be more than a personal experience."
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Home made movies : twenty years of American 8mm & Super-8 films
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On Jack Smith's Flaming Creatures (and Other Secret-flix of Cinemaroc)
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An Army of Phantoms: American Movies and the Making of the Cold War
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for the weekly paper: his first published review (in 1977) was of
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Hoberman, J. (March 7–20, 2019). "The waiting rooms of history".
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The Dream Life: Movies, Media, and the Mythology of the Sixties
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The Red Atlantis: Communist Culture in the Absence of Communism
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For the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism
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Film After Film: (Or, What Became of 21st Century Cinema?)
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Vulgar Modernism - Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism
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Philadelphia: Temple University Press. 1999. 1361:Columbia University School of the Arts alumni 8: 1240:Christian Petzold : The State We Are In 364:, Hoberman was honored with the prestigious 1351:American people of Ukrainian-Jewish descent 1341:American people of Hungarian-Jewish descent 42: 31: 1316:21st-century American non-fiction writers 1301:20th-century American non-fiction writers 1025:Vulgar Modernism - Artfourm International 982: 980: 362:San Francisco International Film Festival 1396:National Society of Film Critics Members 1346:American people of Polish-Jewish descent 1336:American people of German-Jewish descent 276:. Hoberman specialized in writing about 236:. Hoberman completed his B.A. degree at 212:Hoberman was born to a Jewish family in 965:"J. Hoberman departs the Village Voice" 904: 491:Two or Three Things I Know About Her... 1261:J. 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Jim Hoberman
Hoberman in 2012
Binghamton University
BA
Columbia University
MFA
j-hoberman.com
film critic
The Village Voice
looney
popular culture
Tex Avery
Chuck Jones
MAD Magazine
Ernie Kovacs
Frank Tashlin
Brooklyn
Poland
Ukraine
Austria-Hungary
Alsace-Lorraine
Fresh Meadows, Queens
Binghamton University
Columbia University
experimental filmmaker
Ken Jacobs
MFA
The Village Voice
Andrew Sarris
experimental film

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