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''I Lost It at the Movies'' (1965) is Pauline Kael's first collection of reviews, covering the years 1954–1965, which was published prior to her long stint at ''The New Yorker''. As a result, the pieces in the book are culled from radio broadcasts that she did while she was at KPFA, as well as numerous periodicals, including ''Moviegoer'', the ''Massachusetts Review'', ''Sight and Sound'', ''Film Culture'', ''Film Quarterly'' and ''Partisan Review''. It contains her negative review of the then widely acclaimed ''West Side Story'', glowing reviews of other movies such as ''The Golden Coach'' and ''Seven Samurai'', as well as longer polemical essays such as her largely negative critical responses to Siegfried Kracauer's ''Theory of Film'' and Andrew Sarris's ''Film Culture'' essay Notes on the Auteur Theory, 1962. The book was a bestseller upon its first release, and is now published by Marion Boyars Publishers. Kael's first book is characterized by an approach where she would often quote contemporary critics such as Bosley Crowther and Dwight Macdonald as a springboard to debunk their assertions while advancing her own ideas. This approach was later abandoned in her subsequent reviews, but is notably referred to in Macdonald's book, ''Dwight Macdonald On Movies'' (1969). When an interviewer asked her in later years as to what she had "lost", as indicated in the title, Kael averred: "There are so many kinds of innocence to be lost at the movies.〔Alpert, Hollis, ''Raising Kael'', The Saturday Review, 24 April 1971〕" It is the first in a series of titles of books that would have a deliberately erotic connotation, typifying the sensual relation Kael perceived herself as having with the movies, as opposed to the theoretical bent that some among her colleagues had. == Contents== The book is divided into an introduction, and four sections. These sections are entitled as such: I) Broadsides; II) Retrospective Reviews: Movies Remembered with Pleasure; III) Broadcasts and Reviews, 1961–1963; and IV) Polemics. The introduction is entitled "Zeitgeist and Poltergeist; Or, Are Movies Going to Pieces?" The contents of Section One (Broadsides): *Fantasies of the Art-House Audience *The Glamour of Delinquency *Commitment and the Straitjacket *''Hud'', Deep in the Divided Heart of Hollywood Movies reviewed in Section Two (Retrospective Reviews): *''The Earrings of Madame de...'' *''The Golden Coach'' *''Smiles of a Summer Night'' *''La Grande Illusion'' *''Forbidden Games'' *''Shoeshine'' *''The Beggar's Opera'' *''Seven Samurai'' Movies reviewed and titles of articles in Section Three (Broadcasts and Reviews): *''Breathless'', and the Daisy Miller Doll *''The Cousins'' *Canned Americana *''West Side Story'' *''L'avventura'' *''One, Two, Three'' *''The Mark'' *''Kagi'' *''The Innocents'' *''A View from the Bridge'', and a Note on ''The Children's Hour'' *''The Day the Earth Caught Fire'' *The Come-Dressed-As-the-Sick-Soul-of-Europe Parties: ''La notte'', ''Last Year at Marienbad'', ''La Dolce Vita'' *''A Taste of Honey'' *''Victim'' *''Lolita'' *''Shoot the Piano Player'' *''Jules and Jim'' *Hemingway's ''Adventures of a Young Man'' *''Fires On The Plain'' *Replying to Listeners *''Billy Budd'' *''Yojimbo'' *''Devi'' *How the Long Distance Runner Throws the Race *''8½'': Confessions of a Movie Director Contents of Section Four (Polemics): *Is There a Cure for Film Criticism? Or, Some Unhappy Thoughts on Siegfried Kracauer's ''Theory of Film: The Redemption of Physical Reality'' *Circles and Squares *Morality Plays Right and Left 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「I Lost It at the Movies」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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