Kenneth Turan

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Kenneth Turan receiving the Media Legacy Award 2014

Kenneth Turan (born October 27, 1946 in Brooklyn , New York ) is an American film critic , author and lecturer in the Master of Professional Writing Program at the University of Southern California . Turan worked as a film critic for the Los Angeles Times and National Public Radio until 2020 .

Life

Kenneth Turan grew up in a Jewish family in Brooklyn, New York . After earning a bachelor's degree from Swarthmore College and a master's degree in journalism from Columbia University , Turan worked for the Washington Post . In 1991 Turan became a film critic for the Los Angeles Times . In 1993 he was named director of the Los Angeles Times Book Prizes.

Turan can be seen in the documentary For the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism , in which he discusses his public argument with film director James Cameron , who emailed the editors of the Los Angeles Times to fire Turan after writing a negative review on Titanic . Turan has been a lecturer in the University of Southern California's Master of Professional Writing Program since 1999.

In 2002 he was a member of the international jury at the Berlin International Film Festival . In 2014 he received the Media Legacy Award.

In late March 2020, Turan announced his resignation from the Los Angeles Times . He has also written regularly in the past for the Morning Edition of NPR . Turan serves on the board of directors of the Yiddish Book Center , the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, and the National Society of Film Critics .

literature

  • William Gildea and Kenneth Turan: The Future is Now: George Allen, Pro Football's Most Controversial Coach . Houghton Mifflin; 1st edition, 1972.
  • Kenneth Turan: I'd Rather Be Wright: Memoirs of an itinerant Tackle . 1974.
  • Kenneth Turan: Sinema: American Pornographic Films and the People Who Make Them . Praeger, 1974.
  • Kenneth Turan: Call Me ismale: The Autobiography of ismale . 1987.
  • Kenneth Turan: Sundance to Sarajevo: Film Festivals and the World They Made . University of California Press, 2003.
  • Kenneth Turan: Never Coming To A Theater Near You . 2004.
  • Kenneth Turan: Now In Theaters Everywhere . 2006.
  • Kenneth Turan and Joseph Papp: Free for All: Joe Papp, the Public, and the Greatest Theater Story Ever Told . Anchor, 2009.
  • Kenneth Turan: Not to Be Missed: Fifty-Four Favorites From a Lifetime of Film . PublicAffairs, 2014.

Web links

Commons : Kenneth Turan  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jonathan Kirsch: Book Review: Turan's pick of pics. In: Jewish Journal, May 28, 2014.
  2. ↑ Jerry Roberts: The Complete History of American Film Criticism . Santa Monica Press, 2010.
  3. ↑ Stories by Kenneth Turan. In: npr.org. Retrieved April 15, 2020.
  4. ^ A b c Scott Feinberg: Kenneth Turan Steps Down as LA Times Film Critic After 30 Years. In: The Hollywood Reporter on March 25, 2020.
  5. ↑ Allison Engel: A Conversation With Kenneth Turan. In: usc.edu, September 20, 2010.
  6. ^ Berlinale: The jury. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, February 6, 2002.
  7. ^ Media Legacy Award: Kenneth Turan. In: cinequest.org. Retrieved April 15, 2020.
  8. ^ Justin Chang: Kenny and me: A colleague and former student salutes Kenneth Turan as he leaves The Times. In: Los Angeles Times, April 3, 2020.
  9. ^ Anne Thompson: As Kenneth Turan Leaves the Los Angeles Times, Film Critics Face a Post-Theatrical Age. In: indiewire.com, March 26, 2020.
  10. ↑ Kenneth Turan. In: npr.org. Retrieved April 15, 2020.
  11. ↑ Kenneth Turan. In: Los Angeles Times. Retrieved April 15, 2020.
  12. ↑ Kenneth Turan. In: lafca.net. Retrieved April 15, 2020.
  13. ^ National Society of Film Critics: Members. In: nationalsocietyoffilmcritics.com. Retrieved April 15, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Turan, Kenneth
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American film critic and author of books about films
DATE OF BIRTH October 27, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Brooklyn , New York City , United States