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Stanley Kauffmann (April 24, 1916 – October 9, 2013) was an American author, editor, and critic of film and theater. ==Career== Kauffmann started with ''The New Republic'' in 1958 and contributed film criticism to that magazine for the next fifty-five years, publishing his last review in 2013.〔(Kauffmann )'' The New Republic''〕 He had one brief break in his ''New Republic'' tenure, when he served as the drama critic for the ''New York Times'' for eight months in 1966. He worked as an acquisitions editor at Ballantine Books in 1953, where he acquired the novel ''Fahrenheit 451'', by Ray Bradbury.〔(Film Critic Stanley Kauffmann Dead at 97 ), ABC News, October 9, 2013.〕 Several years later, while working as an editor at Alfred A. Knopf in 1959 he discovered a manuscript by Walker Percy, ''The Moviegoer''. Following a year of rewrites and revisions, the novel was published in 1961, and went on to win a National Book Award in 1962.〔Moore, H., Walker Percy's ''The Moviegoer: A Publishing History'', The Library Chronicle of the University of Texas. vol 22, Nos. 1-4, 1991-92, pp. 123-43 〕 Kauffmann was a long-time advocate and enthusiast of foreign film, helping to introduce and popularize in America the works of directors such as Ingmar Bergman, François Truffaut, Claude Chabrol, and Yasujiro Ozu. He inspired and influenced younger film and cultural critics such as Roger Ebert〔 and David Denby.〔 Kauffmann was also a professor of English, Drama, and Film at City University of New York (1973–76) and also taught at the Yale School of Drama.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.nndb.com/people/142/000179602 )〕 Kauffmann was featured in the 2009 documentary ''For the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism'' where he was shown discussing the beginnings of film criticism in America, and noting the important contributions of poet Vachel Lindsay, who grasped that "the arrival of film was an important moment in the history of human consciousness".〔(''For the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism'' ), TCM Movie Database〕 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「Stanley Kauffmann」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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