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Seeing Through Movies (Pantheon Guide to Popular Culture) PDF

276 Pages·1990·28.086 MB·English
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SEEING '""'"'"MOVIES j3 M D E SEEING THROUGH MOVIES Other Titles in the Pantheon Guide to Popular Culture Series: Reading the News Robert Karl Manoff and Michael Schudson, Editors Watching Television Todd Gitlin, Editor Facing the Music Simon Frith, Editor A PANTHEON GU. TO POPULAR CULTURE SEEING THROUGH MOVIES Mark Crispin Miller EDITOR Pantheon Books NEW YORK Compilation copyright © 1990 by Mark Crispin Miller "The Big Picture" and "End ofStory" copyright © 1990 by Mark Crispin Miller "Down the Tubes" copyright © by Todd Gitlin "IfYou'veSeenOne,You'veSeentheMall"copyright© 1990byDouglasGomery "Good Soldiers" copyright © 1990 by Pat Aufderheide "The Last Crusade" copyright © 1990 by Peter Biskind "Rose-Tinted Spectacles" copyright © 1990 by Stuart Klawans All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. PublishedintheUnitedStatesbyPantheonBooks,adivisionofRandomHouse,Inc., New York, and simultaneously in Canada by Random House ofCanada Limited, Toronto. Library ofCongress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Seeing through—movies / Mark Crispin Miller, editor. p. cm. (A Pantheon guide to polular cu—lture) Contents: Introd—uction / Mark Crispin Miller Rose-tinted spectacles / Stuart Klawans Down the tubes / Todd — — Gitlin —Good soldiers / Pat Aufderheide The last crusade / Peter Biskind Ifyou've seen—one, you've seen the mall / Douglas Gomery. ISBN 0-394-57491-5. ISBN 0-679-72367-6 (pbk.) 1. Motion pictures. 2. Popularculture. I. Miller, Mark Crispin. II. Series. PN1994.S47 1990 791.43—dc20 89-43231 Text design by Robert Bull Design Manufactured in the United States ofAmerica First Edition c ontents INTRODUCTION The Big Picture 3 MARK CRISPIN MILLER THE MEDIUM Down the Tubes 14 TODD GITLIN THE THEATER If You've Seen One, You've Seen the Mall 49 DOUGLAS GOMERY VIETNAM Good Soldiers 81 PAT AUFDERHEIDE BLOCKBUSTER The Last Crusade 112 PETER BISKIND COLORIZATION Rose-Tinted Spectacles 150 STUART KLAWANS CONTENTS ADVERTISING End of Story 186 MARK CRISPIN MILLER NOTES 247 THE CONTRIBUTORS 265 SEEING THROUGH MOVIES

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