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title: 'Manny Farber'
type: 'critic-profile'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/critics/manny-farber'
updated: '2026-07-31'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
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# Manny Farber

A critic followed by the CinePixo community. This is a profile, not a byline:
Manny Farber does not write for CinePixo, and no opinion on this site
should be attributed to this critic.

## About

Painter and critic whose 'White Elephant Art vs. Termite Art' (1962) gave criticism its most useful pair of categories: the prestige picture straining to be important, and the termite work that 'goes always forward eating its own boundaries.' Farber wrote about B-movies, character actors and the corners of the frame with a painter's eye, and Negative Space is the crankiest essential book in the field.

## Elsewhere

- [Farber on Film (Library of America)](https://www.loa.org/books/342-farber-on-film-the-complete-film-writings-of-manny-farber/)

Source: https://cinepixo.com/critics/manny-farber
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