Fredric Jameson's Greatest Films and Novelists

All Jameson titles are currently on sale as part of his 91st birthday celebration.

Few radical thinkers have had such a phenomenal impact on literary criticism, critical theory, and philosophy as Fredric Jameson. In celebration of what would-be his ninety-first birthday, Verso editor Sebastian Budgen shares two of Jameson's favorites lists, sent shortly before his passing in September of last year. 

THE GREATEST FILMS (in no special order):

Touchez pas au grisbi (Jacques Becker, 1954)

My Friend Ivan Lapshin (Aleksei German, 1985)

High and Low (Akira Kurasawa, 1963)

Nachts, wenn der Teufel kommt (Robert Siodmak, 1957)

Fellini-Satyricon (Federico Fellini, 1969)

Alexander the Great (Theodōros Angelopoulos, 1980)

Odd Man Out (Carol Reed, 1947)

Days of Eclipse (Alexander Sokurov, 1988)

Sawdust and Tinsel (Ingmar Bergman , 1953)

Terrorizer (Edward Yang, 1986)

Paisan (Roberto Rossellini, 1946)

Los Olvidados (Luis Buñuel, 1950)

La Marie du Port (Marcel Carné, 1950)

The Man Who Fell to Earth (Nicolas Roeg, 1976)

Tinker Taylor Soldier Spy (Tomas Alfredson, 2011)

Lucia (Humberto Solas, 1968)

The Perfumed Nightmare (Kidlat Tahimik, 1977)

Duel in the Sun (King Vidor, 1946)

Le Crime de Monsieur Lange (Jean Renoir, 1936)

Once upon a time in the West (Sergio Leone, 1968)

Fort Apache (John Ford, 1948)

La Strada (Federico Fellini, 1954)

The Thief of Baghdad (Alexander Korda, 1940)

Fever (Agnieszka Holland, 1980)

Stage Fright (Alfred Hitchcock, 1950)

The Kitchen (James Hill, 1961)

The Greatest Novelists of the 21st Century

Zadie Smith

Rachel Kushner

Michel Houellebecq

The Greatest Novelists from 1945-2000

Alasdair James Gray “Lanark”

Alexander Kluge

Günter Grass

Khateb Yacine

Amitav Ghosh

Zia Haidar Rahman (particularly In the Light of What We Know)

Kenzubaro Oe

Yukio Mishima

J.M. Coetzee

Claude Simon

Thomas Pynchon

Pramoedya Ananta Toer 

Halldór Laxness

Mahasweta Devi

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Mario Vargas Llosa

Heimito Von Doderer

All Jameson titles are currently on sale as part of his 91st birthday celebration.

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Late Marxism

by Fredric Jameson

In the name of an assault on “totalization” and “identity,” a number of contemporary theorists have been busily washing Marxism’s dialectical and utopian projects down the plug-hole of postmodernis...

The Benjamin Files

by Fredric Jameson

The Benjamin Files offers a comprehensive new reading of all of Benjamin's major works and a great number of his shorter book reviews, notes and letters. Its premise is that Benjamin was an anti-p...

A Singular Modernity

by Fredric Jameson

The concepts of modernity and modernism are amongst the most controversial and vigorously debated in contemporary philosophy and cultural theory. In this intervention, Fredric Jameson—perhaps the m...

An American Utopia

by Fredric Jameson

Contributions by Jodi Dean, Saroj Giri, Agon Hamza, Kojin Karatani, Kim Stanley Robinson, Frank Ruda and Kathi Weeks

Fredric Jameson’s pathbreaking essay “An American Utopia” radically questions standard leftist notions of what constitutes an emancipated society. Advocated here are—among other things—universal co...

Representing 'Capital'

by Fredric Jameson

Representing Capital, Fredric Jameson's first book-length engagement with Marx's magnum opus, is a unique work of scholarship that records the progression of Marx's thought as if it were a musica...

Valences of the Dialectic

by Fredric Jameson

After half a century exploring dialectical thought, renowned cultural critic Fredric Jameson presents a comprehensive study of a misunderstood yet vital strain in Western philosophy. The dialectic,...