A Face of War was favorably reviewed by which film critic and historian?
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A Face of War A Face of War is a 1968 documentary about the Vietnam War, by Eugene S. Jones. "The New York Times" called it "one of the great Vietnam documentaries." Roger Ebert called it a "heart-wrenching masterpiece".
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Roger Ebert Roger Joseph Ebert ( ; June 18, 1942 – April 4, 2013) was an American film critic and historian, journalist, screenwriter, and author. He was a film critic for the "Chicago Sun-Times" from 1967 until his death in 2013. In 1975, Ebert became the first film critic to win the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism.
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The War Lover The War Lover is a 1962 British black-and-white war film directed by Philip Leacock and written by Howard Koch loosely based on the 1959 novel, "The War Lover" by John Hersey, altering the names of characters and events but retaining its basic framework. It stars Steve McQueen, Robert Wagner, Shirley Anne Field, Ed Bishop and features a young Michael Crawford.
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Max Arthur Max Arthur OBE is an oral and military historian and author who specialises in first-hand recollections of the twentieth century in particular the First and Second World War. His most noted work is 'Forgotten Voices of the Great War' and 'Forgotten Voices of the Second World War' both in association with the Imperial War Museum.
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Archer Winsten Archer Winsten was a leading American film critic from the late 1930s through the early 1980s. He wrote for the "New York Post".
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Ashley Jackson (historian) Ashley Jackson is a professor of imperial and military history in the Defence Studies Department at King's College London and a visiting fellow at Kellogg College, University of Oxford. Jackson is a specialist in the history of the British Empire. He argued in 2013 that historians have even extended to a third and fourth empire:
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Avery Craven Avery Odelle Craven (August 12, 1885 near Ackworth, Iowa – January 21, 1980, Chesterton, Indiana) was a historian who specialized in the study of the nineteenth-century United States and the American Civil War.
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James Stewart James Maitland "Jimmy" Stewart (May 20, 1908July 2, 1997) was an American actor and military officer who is among the most honored and popular stars in film history. A major Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer contract player, Stewart was known for his distinctive drawl and down-to-earth persona, which helped him often portray American middle-class men struggling in crisis. Many of the films he starred in have become enduring classics.
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Oswald Spengler Oswald Arnold Gottfried Spengler (29 May 1880 – 8 May 1936) was a German historian and philosopher of history whose interests included mathematics, science, and art. He is best known for his book "The Decline of the West" ("Der Untergang des Abendlandes"), published in 1918 and 1922, covering all of world history. Spengler's model of history postulates that any culture is a superorganism with a limited and predictable lifespan.
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Historical poetics Historical poetics is a scholarly approach to studying film, which David Bordwell outlined in his book "Making Meaning" (1989). Bordwell argued that interpretative approaches should be eschewed and argued that historical poetics was a better approach to studying film.
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John Huntley (film historian) John Frederick Huntley (18 July 1921 – 7 August 2003) was an English film historian, educator and archivist.
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Laurence Rees Laurence Rees (born 1957) is a British historian. He is a documentary filmmaker and author of several books about atrocities committed by the totalitarian states of the Second World War. He is the former Creative Director of History Programmes for the BBC. His documentaries and books are used as teaching aids in British schools.
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Nigel Andrews Nigel Andrews (born 3 April 1947) is a film critic of the "Financial Times". Having begun his career as an editor on the British Film Institute's "Cinema One" series and as a critic for its publications "Sight & Sound" and the "Monthly Film Bulletin", he first contributed to the "FT" on 12 May 1972 and became the regular weekly reviewer from 23 March 1973. He has written books on John Travolta, Arnold Schwarzenegger and the film "Jaws". He is a graduate of Cambridge University. In 1985 and 2002, Andrews was named Critic of the Year at the British Press Awards.
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Amy Taubin Amy Taubin (born September 10, 1939) is an American film critic. She is a contributing editor for two prominent film magazines, the British "Sight & Sound" and the American "Film Comment". She has also written regularly for "The Village Voice", "The Millennium Film Journal", and "Artforum", and used to be curator of video and film at the non-profit experimental performance space The Kitchen.
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Vijaya Mulay Vijaya Mulay (born 16 May 1921) is a documentary filmmaker, film historian, writer, educationist and researcher.
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James Davison Hunter James Davison Hunter (born 1955) is an American sociologist who is the LaBrosse-Levinson Distinguished Professor of Religion, Culture, and Social Theory at the University of Virginia and the founder and executive director of UVA's Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture. Hunter is a prominent figure in the sociology of religion and the sociology of culture, with much of his work dedicated to the study of evangelicalism and cultural change. He is also notable for popularizing the term culture war.
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Adolf Rosenberg Carl Adolf Rosenberg (1850 – 1906) was a German theater critic and art historian.
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Godfrey Cheshire III Godfrey Cheshire III (born June 3, 1951) is an American film critic, film writer and director.
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Peter Biskind Peter Biskind is an American cultural critic, film historian, journalist, former executive editor of "Premiere" magazine from 1986 to 1996. He wrote several books depicting life in Hollywood, including "Seeing Is Believing," "Easy Riders, Raging Bulls," "Down and Dirty Pictures," and "Gods and Monsters," some of which were bestsellers. In 2010 he published a biography of director and actor Warren Beatty, entitled "Star: How Warren Beatty Seduced America."
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Stephen Prince Stephen Prince (born 1955) is an American film critic, historian and theorist. He has been Professor of Communication Studies and is now Professor of Cinema at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University ("Virginia Tech"). His books include "The Warrior's Camera: The Cinema of Akira Kurosawa" (1991) and "Savage Cinema: Sam Peckinpah and the Rise of Ultraviolent Movies" (1998).
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Robbie Collin Robbie Collin is a British film critic.
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Martin Windrow Martin C. Windrow (born 1944) is a British historian, editor and author of several hundred books, articles and monographs, particularly those on organizational or physical details of military history, and the history of the post-war French Foreign Legion. His most notable works include "The Last Valley", an account of the Battle of Dien Bien Phu during the First Indochina War, which was published in 2004 to "critical acclaim", and "Our Friends beneath the Sands" published in 2010.