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Robert Warshow


Born
New York, The United States
Genre
Culture


Robert Warshow (1917 - 1955) was an American author associated with the New York Intellectuals. He is best known for his criticism of film and popular culture for Commentary and The Partisan Review. Born in New York City and raised in its Bronx borough, he graduated from the University of Michigan in 1938. He briefly wrote for The New Leader before being stationed in Washington, D.C. as a member of the Army Signal Corps during World War II.

Among the articles published in Warshow's short lifetime were "The Westerner" and "The Gangster as Tragic Hero", analyses of the Western movie and the gangster movie genre from a cultural standpoint. He also penned essays praising playwright Clifford Odets as well as George Herriman's newspaper comic stri ...more

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Average rating: 3.93 · 710 ratings · 38 reviews · 5 distinct works • Similar authors
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Film Theory and Criticism: ...
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The Immediate Experience: M...
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The Gangster Film Reader
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Jay Gould: The Story of a F...
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“The New Yorker has always dealt with experience not by trying to understand it but by prescribing the attitude to be adopted toward it. This makes it possible to feel intelligent without thinking....History may kill you, it is true, but you have taken the right attitude, you will have been intelligent and humane and suitably melancholy to the end.”
― Robert Warshow
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“The New Yorker has always dealt with experience not by trying to understand it but by prescribing the attitude to be adopted toward it. This makes it possible to feel intelligent without thinking, and it is a way of making everything tolerable, for the assumption of a suitable attitude toward experience can give one the illusion of having dealt with it adequately.”
― Robert Warshow
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“In its initial character, the gangster film is simply one example of the movies' constant tendency to create fixed dramatic patterns that can be repeated indefinitely with a reasonable expectation of profit.”
― Robert Warshow, The Immediate Experience: Movies, Comics, Theatre, and Other Aspects of Popular Culture
tags: franchise, genre, movies, originality
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