Background
Norman Kagan was born in 1931 in the United States.
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1974
(Norman Kagan's study of Robert Altman's films is crucial ...)
Norman Kagan's study of Robert Altman's films is crucial for understanding not only Altman as auteur, but how genres work and what they are. It's equally relevant therefore to a full understanding of the Hollywood system, and to whatever that reveals (and conceals) about America's popular thinking.
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1982
(Stanley Kubrick is one of our most brilliant, innovative ...)
Stanley Kubrick is one of our most brilliant, innovative and difficult filmmakers. Norman Kagan's analysis cuts a lucid path through those difficulties. He summarizes the plots of each of Kubrick's films, providing a running commentary as he goes along. He moreover lists thematic obsessions that run through all the films he describes, offering an intriguing sense of Kubrick's career as a whole.
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1989
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2003
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2015
Norman Kagan was born in 1931 in the United States.
Norman attended New York University.
Norman Kagan works as a film critic and short story writer. He writes about American films and filmmakers in a way that critics have often characterized as both engaging and informative. In 1974 Kagan contributed The War Film to the Pyramid Illustrated History of the Movies series, a series otherwise devoted to biographies of film stars. In his 1995 volume The Cinema of Oliver Stone, Kagan takes as his subject a filmmaker whose works have inspired heated debates over subject matter and treatment.
(Norman Kagan's study of Robert Altman's films is crucial ...)
1982(Stanley Kubrick is one of our most brilliant, innovative ...)
1989
