Description:
Jump Cuts, Tracking Shots and Scherzos gathers five decades of essays by David Sterritt, one of America's most distinguished critics, ranging across film, music, literature, and modern culture.
Brief description: David Sterritt is an American film critic, scholar, and educator known for his insightful writing on modern and avant-garde cinema. A longtime critic for The Christian Science Monitor (1968-2005), he has also chaired the National Society of Film Critics and the New York Film Critics Circle. Sterritt has taught at institutions including the Maryland Institute College of Art and is the author of numerous books on filmmakers such as Alfred Hitchcock and Jean-Luc Godard, as well as studies on the Beat Generation and postwar culture.