Do the movies have a future?
By: by David Denby
Edition: 1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed.
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 347
ISBN-13: 9781416599470; 9781416599487; 9781439110096
Subjects: Motion pictures; Motion picture industry; Technological innovations; Film criticism; History
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Preface; title: Introduction: the way we live now; title: 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; title: 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; title: Stars.  Joan Crawford; Fallen idols: movie stars today; title: Genres. High school movies; Chick flicks; Romantic comedy gets knocked up; title: 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; title: Two critics. James Agee; Pauline Kael; title: An opening to the future? Mumblecore; Terrence Malick's insufferable masterpiece; title: Rise of the planet of the apes.