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JUMP CUT
A REVIEW OF CONTEMPORARY MEDIA
Potamkin's film criticism
by Russell Campbell
from Jump Cut, no.
18, August 1978, pp.
The compound cinema: the film writings of Harry Alan Potamkin: Potamkin, Harry Alan, Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming.
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copyright Jump Cut: A Review of Contemporary Media, 1978, 2005
Lewis, Jacobs, ed. The Compound Cinema: Film Writings of Harry Alan Potamkin (New York: Teachers College Press, 1977), $25.
When Harry Alan Potamkin died, his body lay in state at the Workers Center in New York.
Representatives of the John Reed Club, the Communist Party, and the Young Pioneers spoke in his memory.
"In the Embryo of All Things" is the first collection of Harry Alan Potamkin's poems.The fact that Potamkin is undoubtedly the only U.S. film critic ever to be accorded a Red funeral (though not a Party member, he was so honored "because of his revolutionary activity in the workers' struggles") has more than curiosity value.
At that time, in 1933, closing the schism between art and politics was no dream of a handful of isolated intellectuals, but the daily practice of a whole cluster of organizations on the Left. To cite bu