Do the movies have a future?
Denby, David
1943-
creator
text
nyu
New York
Simon & Schuster
2012
1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed.
monographic
eng
xiii, 347 p. ; 25 cm.
Preface -- Introduction: the way we live now -- Trends. Conglomerate aesthetics; 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. Sideways, Capote, Capturing the Friedmans, The squid and the whale, The diving bell and the butterfly, There will be blood, The hurt locker, Winter's bone -- Stars. Joan Crawford; Fallen idols: movie stars today -- Genres. High school movies; Chick flicks; Romantic comedy gets knocked up -- Directors. Otto Preminger; Victor Fleming; Pedro Almodóvar; Clint Eastwood; The Coen Brothers; Quentin Tarantino: Pulp fiction, Kill Bill: vol. 1, Inglourious basterds; David Fincher/The social network -- Two critics. James Agee; Pauline Kael -- An opening to the future? Mumblecore; Terrence Malick's insufferable masterpiece -- Rise of the planet of the apes.
David Denby.
Includes index.
n-us---
Motion pictures
United States
History
21st century
Motion pictures
United States
History
20th century
Motion picture industry
Technological innovations
Film criticism
United States
PN1993.5.U6 D46 2012
9781416599470 (hardcover)
9781416599487 (pbk.)
9781439110096 (ebook)
2011052982
DLC
111227
20170206105220.0
17096829