On the Art of the Arts
On the Art of the Arts
Foster Hirsch, admired cultural historian and biographer Victoria Wilson, former Vice President, Executive Editor, Alfred Knopf Publishers, discuss four echt movies of the fifties .
Victoria Wilson has been one of the most admired and influential figures in American publishing for more than five decades. As Vice President and Executive Editor at Alfred A. Knopf, she had a profound impact on Knopf and on the literary and cultural landscape. Since leaving Knopf, she has continued to work as a consulting editor and as a writer. Her Life of Barbara Stanwyck: Steel-True 1907-1940 was published to great acclaim (“Monumental.” -- Peter Bogdanovich; “Huge and wonderful and rich. ” -- Anne Rice; “860 glittering pages” -- Janet Maslin, The NYT ) and she is at work on the concluding volume of the Stanwyck biography. Wilson has served on many boards and was appointed by President Clinton to the US Commission on Civil Rights.
Foster Hirsch, Professor of Film at Brooklyn College and the author of 16 books on film and theater including The Dark Side of the Screen: Film Noir; Otto Preminger: The Man Who Would Be King; and, most recently, Hollywood and the Movies of the Fifties: The Collapse of the Studio System, the Thrill of Cinerama, and the Invasion of the Ultimate Body Snatcher--Television. Hirsch is at work on a book about the movies of the sixties. His editor has been Victoria Wilson.
Watch Wilson and Hirsch’s podcast, On the Art of the Arts, on this website. Their successful conversation series, Talk of the Town, is held monthly at the Salmagundi Club and is open to the public .
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All that Haven Allows - Victoria Wilson
Soldiers and Sailors and all the Ships at Sea – EPISODE TWO of the Victoria Wilson/Foster Hirsch podcast, On the Art of the Arts, heading your way soon… Among the movies discussed: William Inge’s PICNIC (On a picnic morning, without a warning, I looked at you and suddenly I knew… I was at the wrong picnic). Be on the lookout for it…. Victoria Wilson
Picnic -Victoria Wilson
Episode Three of the VW / FH Podcast On the Art of the Arts, coming to a screen near you . . .in which Victoria Wilson and Foster Hirsch reckon with John Ford’s haunting masterpiece of obsession and quest, THE SEARCHERS, and the myth of the American frontier. “From the thrilling pages of life – a man you must fear and respect . . .with a rare kind of courage….the courage that keeps on and on . . . far beyond all reasonable endurance . . The Biggest, Roughest, Toughest ...and Most Beautiful Picture Ever Made!” - Victoria Wilson
The Searchers - Victoria Wilson
Grand news this Christmas morn . . . - and Happy Chanukah . . .time to put aside bagels and baubles, brisket and challah. . .collect all Christmas wrappings strewn on the floor and gather round in your stupor of excess presents to watch the long-awaited Episode Three of the Victoria Wilson Foster Hirsch Podcast, On the Art of the Arts. Grab a candy cane and the tangerine at the bottom of your stocking and take a gander as we celebrate John Ford’s masterpiece of the American west, THE SEARCHERS. -V Wilson
Up and running now . . .the (too) long-awaited Episode Five On the Art of the Arts of the Victoria Wilson Foster Hirsch podcast . . .Collecting Driftwood or Self-WIll Run Riot; an exploration into Jean Renoir’s overlooked dark, dream-like portrait of marriage, infidelity and obsession, THE WOMAN ON THE BEACH. See you on the beach collecting driftwood in podcast-land. - V Wilson
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