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Movie Wars: How Hollywood and the Media Limit What Movies We Can See

By Jonathan Rosenbaum

Book information

Publisher
Chicago Review Press
Year
2002
ISBN
1556524544, 9781556524547
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1017 kB (1041238 bytes)
Pages
240\242
Time added
2015-08-27 00:21:06

Description

Is the cinema, as writers from David Denby to Susan Sontag have claimed, really dead? Contrary to what we have been led to believe, films are better than ever—we just can’t see the good ones. Movie Wars cogently explains how movies are packaged, distributed, and promoted, and how, at every stage of the process, the potential moviegoer is treated with contempt. Using examples ranging from the New York Times’s coverage of the Cannes film festival to the anticommercial practices of Orson Welles, Movie Wars details the workings of the powerful forces that are in the process of ruining our precious cinematic culture and heritage, and the counterforces that have begun to fight back.

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