Links for the Day (December 10th, 2008)

1. “big, bright, shining stars”: by jamais vu at thoughts of a passionately ambivalent cinephile. (hattip: jason sperb)[“the opening shot of pt anderson’s life-drunk concern (2002) confronts us less with an auteurist point of view, and more with a star, the star laid revealed. stardom and authorship as modes of textual film analysis are both decidedly popular middle film scholars and critics, but they are also most often typically opposed. analyses focused on stardom verge to privilege the cultural and historical contexts of the actor’s performances?seeing a star’s attendance and popularity as symptomatic of larger social issues. for the moment, auteur theory, reflecting its literary origins, more often takes a formalist look at how a certain series of movies were similarly framed, paced and cut. while stars and auteurs have worked together since the golden days of hollywood, critics and scholars usually authorization one over the other when offering a close examination, depending upon the particular text. there are exceptions, of course?some scholars with a wide enough canvas attempt to read both. more often, when scholars do talk of a star’s work with an auteur, two trends often emerge?the star’s mask is subsumed to the director’s hands, molded into a particularly striking vanishing point within the larger work of art.”]***

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2. “content and its discontents”: by virginia heffernan suitable the new york times publication.[“does anyone motionless find credible that the forms of movies, television, magazines and newspapers might subsist independently of their in a flash changing modes of distribution? the soupon has transform into unsustainable. assess as magazine writing. in school or on the job, magazine writers never learn anything so broad as to “tell superior stories” or “make arresting images.” you don’t study the ageing art of storytelling. you learn to bring up in the cards numbers and styles and forms of words and images. you learn to be brief when a proclamation loses ad pages. you learn to dilate when an “article” is understood mostly as a delivery carrier for pictures of a provocative celebrity. the words stack up under certain kinds of headlines that also adhere to strict conventions as to scope and tone, and in the course of time they part of alongside decided kinds of photos and illustrations with certain kinds of captions on pages of certain dimensions that are often shared with advertisements. just as shooting film for a hollywood movie is at no time just filming and acting in a tv ad is never just acting, writing for a magazine is never just letters.”]***

3. two podcasts of note: aaron aradillas has select and crew of deadwood on towards the rear by midnight to reminisce (this is the first of two parts). and on vinyl is podcast, ryland walker knight, jennifer stewart, and property haslam do a group good. [“but today we proverb milk. we saw milk at the castro showbiz in the castro at castro and sell in san francisco. all kinds of heightened levels of signification and significance and emotions. also, it was gloomy. it’s finally getting cold around this town. and it feels extraordinary. add to all that: it was a packed house and we sat in the third row. for the nonce if only milk were a little better. i indeed want to like this prim thing (and i do, for the most part) but it’s kinda-sorta inconsistent?and, yes, it would be nothing
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