Leonard Maltin

Leonard Maltin ( born December 18, 1950 in New York) is an American film critic and nonfiction author.

Life

At the age of 15 years Maltin began a work for the journal Movie Fan Monthly. According to a journalist's training at the University of New York published Maltin film products in various magazines, newspapers and journals, including the well-known magazines Variety and TV Guide, and soon made ​​a name for himself as an excellent film critic.

As an author, Maltin has become best known for his compendium Leonard Maltin 's Movie and Video Guide, which is updated constantly since 1969 with film summaries and meetings and also appears annually since 1988. He also wrote books about the art of film ( Behind the Camera, The Whole Movie Sourcebook, Leonard Maltin 's Movie Encyclopedia and Of Mice and Magic: A History of American Animated Cartoons ( German edition in the bibliography below) ). One of his specialties is the filmmaking Walt Disney and the company he founded group, the Walt Disney Company. In Maltin wrote the standard work The Disney film, which went through several editions.

Since the 1980s, Maltin is regularly seen as a film critic in the U.S. show Entertainment Tonight, and can also be heard in its own radio program ( Leonard Maltin on Video ). Along with the Boston film critic Joyce Kulhawik he also moderates the TV show Hot Ticket. In Germany Maltin gained since the introduction of the DVD is also a greater awareness because it occurs mainly in a series of Disney DVDs as moderator and commentator. In his role as critic and film historian, he is also a sought-after interview partners in TV documentaries.

In the mid -1990s was Maltin President of the Los Angeles Film Critics Association and is part of the supervisory board of the "Hollywood Entertainment Museum ". For nearly a decade, Maltin also worked as a teacher at the " New School for Social Research " in New York and currently teaches also at the " School of Cinema - Television" at the University of Southern California.

Works

  • The classic American animated film. (OT: Of Mice and Magic ). Heyne, Munich, ISBN 3-453-86042- X.
  • The Disney film. 3rd edition. Hyperion, New York 1995, ISBN 0-7868-8137-2.
  • Along with Richard W. Bann: The Little Rascals. (OT: The Little Rascals ). Trescher, Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-928409-31- X.
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