![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The great current in modern criticism and modern filmmaking arrives in the fifties with the recognition that there were artists at work in Hollywood making films in genres that had hitherto won little respect, such as crime stories (film noir), family melodramas (“women’s pictures”), and musicals. Some justly venerated movies come dressed as art (such as Dreyer’s “The Passion of Joan of Arc”), while others (such as Hitchcock’s “Vertigo”) come dressed as disposable entertainment. The modern history of the cinema (actually, the history of modernity as such) is the recognition of art in apparent ephemera. ![]()
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