Do the Movies Have a Future?

Name: Do the Movies Have a Future?
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ISBN: 9781416599487

ISBN-10: 1416599487

ISBN-13: 9781416599487

Edition: 2012

Authors: David Denby

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Received as an important work of one of our most important film critics, Do the Movies Have a Future? draws from a selection of the New Yorker writer’s published pieces over a dozen years to examine the art, business, and future of the movies.In the second decade of the twenty-first century, the movies, once America’s primary popular art form, have become an endangered species. Do the Movies Have a Future? is a rousing and witty call to arms. In these sharp and engaging essays and reviews, The New Yorker movie critic David Denby weighs in on the increasingly frenzied, weightless action spectacles that dominate the world’s attention. He also reaffirms that movies are our national theater,…

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List price: $16.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Publication date: 10/22/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 368
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.38" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English

David Denby has been film critic and staff writer at The New Yorker since 1998; prior to that he was film critic of New York magazine. His reviews and essays have also appeared in The New Republic, The Atlantic, and The New York Review of Books. He lives in New York City.



Preface


Introduction: The Way We Live Now



Trends


Conglomerate Aesthetics: Notes on the Disintegration of Film Language


Pirates on the iPod: The Soul of a New Screen


Spectacle: The Passion of the Christ, Avatar, Endless Summer-Digital All the Time



Independent Glories


Capturing the Friedmans, Sideways, Capote, The Squid and the Whale, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, There Will Be Blood, The Hurt Locker, Winter's Bone



Stars


Enduring Joan Crawford


Fallen Idols: Movie Stars Today



Genres


High School Movies


Chick Flicks


Romantic Comedy Gets Knocked Up: The Slacker-Striver Comedy



Directors


Otto Preminger: The Balance of Terror


Victor Fleming: The Director the Auteurists Forgot


Pedro Almodï¿½var: In and Out of Love


Clint Eastwood: The Longest Journey


The Coen Brothers: A Killing Joke


Quentin Tarantino: Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill: Vol. 1, Inglourious Basterds


David Fincher and The Social Network



Two Critics


James Agee


Pauline Kael: A Great Critic and Her Circle



An Opening to the Future?


Mumblecore


Terrence Malick's Insufferable Masterpiece


Rise of the Planet of the Apes


Acknowledgments


Index