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Smith on Sontag
M.S. Smith discusses Susan Sontag’s film criticism:
for me, her main achievement was her revision of the purpose of film criticism. Sontag’s writing on film was only a small part of her writing on the arts, and on the surface much of it can seem fairly clinical. Her expansive essays on directors such as Jean-Luc Godard, Ingmar Bergman, and Robert Bresson engaged their films within the context of larger artistic issues, with questions of form, the relationship to literary texts, the internal mechanics of narrative, the integral ties between structure and content. And in these essays she often indulged in esoteric aphorisms, calling Godard a "deliberate destroyer of cinema" or concluding that in some of Alain Resnais’ films "the memory of an unrecapturable feeling becomes the subject of feeling."
Yet for all its earnestness and rigorous formalism, Sontag’s criticism was always emotive and humanistic.
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