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“An orgy of words, after all, is still an orgy.”
― The Rhapsodes: How 1940s Critics Changed American Film Culture
― The Rhapsodes: How 1940s Critics Changed American Film Culture
“Someone might ask, if the dynamic of innovation consists of schema and revision, where does true originality come from? Is there no single work we can point to as the ultimate source of this or that new storrytelling strategy? I'm inclined to say there is no such source. Artists working in mass art forms find originality by revising schemas in circulation, or by revising ones that have fallen into disuse.”
― Reinventing Hollywood: How 1940s Filmmakers Changed Movie Storytelling
― Reinventing Hollywood: How 1940s Filmmakers Changed Movie Storytelling
“Each block corresponds to one influence that Whitehead acknowledged: Richard Stark, Elmore Leonard, and Patricia Highsmith.”
― Perplexing Plots: Popular Storytelling and the Poetics of Murder
― Perplexing Plots: Popular Storytelling and the Poetics of Murder
“Films for audiences both small and large belong to that very inclusive art we call cinema.”
― Film Art: An Introduction
― Film Art: An Introduction
