- Title Pages
- Title Pages
- Title Pages
- Illustrations
- To Iris Barry (1895–1969)
- Credits
- Previews
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1 Early Years -
2 “We Enjoyed the War” -
3 “Dear Miss Barry” -
4 The Other Bloomsbury -
5 Life with Lewis -
6 Children -
7 Alan Porter -
8 The Spectator -
9 Splashing into Film Society -
10 Cinema Paragons, Hollywood, and Lady Mary -
11 Let’s Go to the Pictures -
12 Victory and Defeat -
13 America -
14 The Askew Salon -
15 Museum Men -
16 Remarriage -
17 Settling In -
18 Cracking Hollywood -
19 Art High and Low -
20 On to Europe -
21 Going Public -
22 The Slow Martyrdom of Alfred Barr -
23 Meanwhile, Back at the Library -
24 New Work, Old Acquaintances -
25 “The Master” and his Minions -
26 Temora Farm -
27 The Museum Enlists -
28 Mr. Rockefeller’s Office -
29 L’Affair Buñuel -
30 The Other Library -
31 Divorce -
32 Postwar Blues -
33 Abbott’s Fall -
34 Hospital -
35 Departure -
36 La Bonne Font -
37 Things Past -
38 The Austin House -
39 Readjustments -
40 New York and London -
41 Final Breaks -
42 The End - Sequel
- Sources
- Index
Alan Porter
Alan Porter
- Chapter:
- (p.83) 7 Alan Porter
- Source:
- Lady in the Dark
- Author(s):
Robert Sitton
- Publisher:
- Columbia University Press
This chapter details Iris Barry's life following her marriage to American poet Alan Porter on October 8, 1923. Twenty-four-year-old Porter was just out of Oxford and writing for the Spectator. Through Porter and his Oxford friends, Iris was introduced to St. Loe Strachey, proprietor of the Spectator. Strachey's son, John, a film enthusiast, thought that the magazine should take notice of films. In the early 1920s Porter's Oxford friend, Bertram Higgins, was writing short reviews of motion pictures, but decided he could not continue and turned the job over to Iris, who had been writing occasional criticism for the publication. Thus began her long and consequential association with film and film criticism. She became what Ivor Montagu later called the “first film critic on a serious British journal,” meaning the first to criticize rather than merely to promote, motion pictures.
Keywords: Alan Porter, marriage, poem, Spectator magazine, film review, film critic
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- Title Pages
- Title Pages
- Title Pages
- Illustrations
- To Iris Barry (1895–1969)
- Credits
- Previews
-
1 Early Years -
2 “We Enjoyed the War” -
3 “Dear Miss Barry” -
4 The Other Bloomsbury -
5 Life with Lewis -
6 Children -
7 Alan Porter -
8 The Spectator -
9 Splashing into Film Society -
10 Cinema Paragons, Hollywood, and Lady Mary -
11 Let’s Go to the Pictures -
12 Victory and Defeat -
13 America -
14 The Askew Salon -
15 Museum Men -
16 Remarriage -
17 Settling In -
18 Cracking Hollywood -
19 Art High and Low -
20 On to Europe -
21 Going Public -
22 The Slow Martyrdom of Alfred Barr -
23 Meanwhile, Back at the Library -
24 New Work, Old Acquaintances -
25 “The Master” and his Minions -
26 Temora Farm -
27 The Museum Enlists -
28 Mr. Rockefeller’s Office -
29 L’Affair Buñuel -
30 The Other Library -
31 Divorce -
32 Postwar Blues -
33 Abbott’s Fall -
34 Hospital -
35 Departure -
36 La Bonne Font -
37 Things Past -
38 The Austin House -
39 Readjustments -
40 New York and London -
41 Final Breaks -
42 The End - Sequel
- Sources
- Index
