Do the movies have a future? /
David Denby.
- 1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed.
- New York : Simon & Schuster, 2012.
- xiii, 347 p. ; 25 cm.
Includes index.
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 Almodâovar; 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.
20150300. Cine--Historia--Estados Unidos. Cine--Historia y crítica.--Estados Unidos Cine estadounidense--Historia y crítica. Motion pictures--History--United States--21st century. Motion pictures--History--United States--20th century. Motion picture industry--Technological innovations. Film criticism--United States.