The Immediate Experience

Movies, Comics, Theatre, and Other Aspects of Popular Culture

Robert Warshow

With an introduction by Lionel Trilling and a new preface by Stanley Cavell

    Robert Warshow: Life And Works, By David Denby

    Editor's Foreword

    Introduction By Lionel Trilling

    Author's Preface

    PART 1: AMERICAN POPULAR CULTURE

    1. The Legacy of the 30's

    2. Woofed With Dreams

    3. Clifford Odets: Poet of the Jewish Middle Class

    4. The "Idealism" of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg

    5. Paul, the Honor Comics, and Dr. Wertham

    6. E. B, White and the New Yorker

    7. An Old Man Gone

    PART 2: AMERICAN MOVIES

    8. The Gangster as Tragic Hero

    9. Movie Chronicle: The Westerner

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Robert Warshow (1917-1955) was a member of the community that has come to be known as the "New York Intellectuals." He was an editor of Commentary magazine and an astute critic of cinema. He tragically died of a heart-attack at the age of 37.

At the time of his death in 1975, Lionel Trilling was University Professor at Columbia University.

Stanley Cavell is Walter M. Cabot Professor, Emeritus, of Aesthetics and the General Theory of Value, Harvard University.