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Do the Movies Have a Future?
David Denby
Simon & Schuster
October 2012
On Sale: October 2, 2012
368 pages
ISBN: 1416599479
EAN: 9781416599470
Kindle: B006VFZVT8
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Non-Fiction
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, New Yorker movie critic David Denby
weighs in on “conglomerate aesthetics,” as embodied in the
frenzied, weightless action spectacles that dominate the
world’s attention, and “platform agnosticism,” the notion
that movies can be watched on smaller and smaller screens:
laptops, tablets, even phones. At the same time, Denby
reaffirms that movies are our national theater, and in this
exhilarating book he celebrates such central big movies as
Avatar and The Social Network as well as small but resonant
triumphs like There Will Be Blood and The Tree of Life. Denby joyously celebrates what remains of the shared culture
in romantic comedy, high school movies, and chick flicks; he
assesses the expressive triumphs and failures of auteurs
Quentin Tarantino, the Coen brothers, Pedro Almodóvar, and
David Fincher. Refusing nostalgia, he mines the past for
strength, examining the changing nature of stardom and the
careers of Joan Crawford, Otto Preminger, and Victor
Fleming, and the continuing self-invention of Clint
Eastwood. And he recreates the excitement of reading two
critics who embodied the film culture of their times, James
Agee and Pauline Kael. Wry, passionate, and incisive, Do the Movies Have a Future?
is both a feast of good writing and a challenge to fight
back. It is an essential guide for movie lovers looking for
ammunition and hope.
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