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James Rufus Agee (/ ˈ eɪ dʒ iː / AY-jee; November 27, 1909 – May 16, 1955) was an American novelist, journalist, poet, screenwriter and film critic.In the 1940s, writing for Time, he was one of the most influential film critics in the United States.
Sure on this shining night, op.13 no.3 is an art song by composer Samuel Barber from his 1938 song cycle Four Songs.The work's text is taken from James Agee's poem "Descriptions of Elysium" which was published in his 1934 poetry collection Permit Me Voyage by the Yale Series of Younger Poets.
James Agee: Permit Me Voyage [20] 1934 34 Muriel Rukeyser: Theory of Flight [20] 1935 35 Edward Weismiller: The Deer Come Down [20] 1936 36 Margaret Haley: The Gardener Mind [20] 1937 37 Joy Davidman: Letter to a Comrade [20] 1938 38 Reuel Denney: The Connecticut River and Other Poems [20] 1939 39 Norman Rosten: Return Again, Traveler [20] 1940 ...
Walker Evans photograph of three sharecroppers, Frank Tengle, Bud Fields, and Floyd Burroughs, Alabama, summer 1936. Let Us Now Praise Famous Men grew out of an assignment that Agee and Evans accepted in 1936 to produce a Fortune article on the conditions among sharecropper families in the American South during the Great Depression.
Auli‘i Cravalho and Dwayne Johnson return as Moana and pal Maui in the Disney movie sequel "Moana 2," a satisfying trip we've kinda seen before.
Critic James Agee noted that "the Hays office has either been hypnotized into a liberality for which it should be thanked, or has been raped in its sleep" to allow the film to be released. [25] In a second review, Agee described the film as "a little like taking a nun on a roller coaster."
Gallic cinephiles gave James Cameron a hero’s welcome at a Paris masterclass on Thursday, ushering the action auteur onstage with a reception so thunderous that it shook the filmmaker’s oft ...
Samuel Barber's Knoxville: Summer of 1915 is a lush, richly textured work. Setting music to excerpts from "Knoxville: Summer of 1915", a 1938 prose poem by James Agee that later became a preamble to his posthumously published, Pulitzer Prize-winning book, A Death in the Family (1957), Barber paints an idyllic, nostalgic picture of Agee's native Knoxville, Tennessee.