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Yossarian Is Alive and Well in the Mexican Desert 4 Nora Ephron

Countercultural Architecture and Dramatic Structure 6

Shooting to Kill (selection) 7

Laugh, Cry, Believe: Spielbergization and Its Discontents 10 J. Hoberman

In the Blink of an Eye (selection) 15

“One Hang, We All Hang”: 16 Richard Hutson

Lynch on Lynch (selection) 18 Chris Rodley, interview with

John Wayne: A Love Song 19 Joan Didion

Nonstop Action: Why ’s Aging Heroes Won’t Give the Gun 20 Adam Mars-Jones

Willing 23 Lorrie Moore

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Furiosa: The Virago of Mad Max: Fury Road 24 Jess Zimmerman

Scary Movies 25 Kim Addonizio

Skyshot 26 Manuel Muñoz

Edward Hopper’s Movie 27 Joseph Stanton

Why We Crave Horror Movies 28 Stephen King

Matinée 32 Robert Coover

The Last Movie 33 Rachel Hadas

Some Months After My Father’s Death 34 Sheryl St. Germain

The Birds (selection) 35

Your Childhood Entertainment Is Not Sacred 37 Nathan Rabin

Pygmalion’s Ghost: Female AI and Technological Dream Girls 38 Angelica Jade Bastién

The Solace of Preparing Fried Foods and Other Quaint Remembrances from Mississippi: Thoughts on The Help 39 Roxane Gay

Better Living Through Criticism: How to Think About Art, Pleasure, Beauty, and Truth (selection) 40 A. O. Scott Copyright © 2018 The Copyright Great © 2018 Books Foundation

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Yossarian Is Alive and Well in the Mexican Desert

Nora Ephron

Seth Allen, , actor, director, producer, screenwriter, and writer Bob Balaban, actor and director , actor Beatles, musical group Richard “Dick” Benjamin, actor and director Susanne Benton, actor , actor, critic, director, producer, and writer , literary character created by Ian Fleming and film series , actor and director , director, producer, screenwriter, and writer , French film magazine , producer Candy, novel by and film Catch-22, novel by Joseph Heller and film , film Columbia, , actor Art Garfunkel, actor, musician, singer, songwriter, and writer Jack Gilford, actor , novel by and film The Green Berets, film , screenwriter , director and producer Barbara Hutton, socialite and philanthropist , critic , actor, director, musician, and singer Richard Lester, director Luv, play Midas, mythical king Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, eighteenth-century Austrian composer Bob Newhart, actor and comedian , director

The Odd Couple, play The Copyright Great © 2018 Books Foundation

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Sam O’Steen, film editor Paramount/Filmways, film studio Austin Pendleton, actor , actor , play Paula Prentiss, actor , screenwriter , actor, director, producer, screenwriter, and writer , critic Richard Sylbert, designer , actor Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, nineteenth-century Russian composer Touch of Evil, film The Trial, novel by Franz Kafka and film François Truffaut, actor, critic, director, producer, screenwriter, and writer David Watkin, cinematographer , actor and producer , actor, director, producer, and writer Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, play by Edward Albee and film Copyright © 2018 The Copyright Great © 2018 Books Foundation

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Countercultural Architecture and Dramatic Structure

David Mamet

ADR (automatic dialogue reading) , director, producer, and screenwriter , actor Werner Herzog, actor, director, screenwriter, and writer Copyright © 2018 The Copyright Great © 2018 Books Foundation

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Shooting to Kill (selection)

Christine Vachon

Julie Andrews, actor, musician, and writer Angelika Film Center, film theater in anorexia nervosa, eating disorder that results in unhealthy Apparatus, film production company , actor Barbie doll Bard College Basquiat, film , actor, director, producer, and screenwriter Bonnie and Clyde, film Boogie Nights, film , television show Brown University Karen Carpenter, musician and singer Richard Carpenter, musician, producer, singer, and songwriter Celine and Julie Go Boating, film Collective for Living Cinema, film theater in New York City , film , actor and producer Ira Deutchman, producer DuArt, film laboratory Barry Ellsworth, producer , film Entertainment Tonight, television show Karen Finley, performance artist Michel Foucault, social and literary theorist , film Fox Searchlight, film company John Frohnmayer, chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts Full House, television show Gilligan’s Island, television show Go Fish, film Roy Halston, designer Mary Harron, director John Hart, producer

Todd Haynes, director, producer, and screenwriter The Copyright Great © 2018 Books Foundation

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I’m Losing You, novel by Bruce Wagner and film I Andy Warhol, film Tom Kalin, director Kids, film Killer , production company Kiss Me, Guido, film Pam Koffler, filmmaker Julia Kristeva, literary theorist and psychoanalyst Lindsay Law, studio executive Shirley MacLaine, actor Ewan McGregor, actor Mean Streets, film H. L. Mencken, early twentieth-century critic and journalist Metro, film theater in New York City Christian Metz, film theorist The Michael Alig Story, film script , film Dan Minahan, screenwriter My Beautiful Laundrette, film Nashville, film National Endowment for the Arts October Films, film company Office Killer, film Bettie Page, pinup model Parting Glances, film Patton, film Kim Peirce, director Poison, film The Poseidon Adventure, film , film , musician, singer, and songwriter Jean Renoir, director, screenwriter, actor, and producer Jonathan Rhys Meyers, actor , director Alain Robbe-Grillet, director, screenwriter, and writer , film Safe, film “Satellite of Love,” song by Lou Reed

Sherwood Schwartz, The Copyright Great © 2018 Books Foundation

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Cindy Sherman, director and photographer Bill Sherwood, director Shine, film Simply Halston, film project Slamdance Sling Blade, film John Sloss, attorney Slumdance Film Festival , actor, director, and writer Todd Solondz Untitled, film project The Sound of Music, film Stranger Than Paradise, film Jean-Marie Straub, director Studio 54, dance club in New York City Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story, film Sweetie, film Swoon, film Take It Like a Man, film script Thalia, film theater in New York City Three’s Company, television show Rose Troche, producer 2001: A , film Variety, magazine , film Post, newspaper , film Reverend Donald Wildmon, founder of the American Family Association Zeitgeist, film distributor Copyright © 2018 The Copyright Great © 2018 Books Foundation

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Laugh, Cry, Believe: Spielbergization and Its Discontents

J. Hoberman

Gila Almagor, actor al Qaeda , director, producer, and screenwriter Amistad, film , fundraiser and producer , film John Ashcroft, US attorney general Eric Bana, actor The Battle of Algiers, film John Baxter, writer Warren Beatty, actor, director, producer, and screenwriter Kenneth Bergquist, brigadier general and assistant secretary of the US Navy The Big Lift, film Black Hawk Down, film Blue Velvet, film , actor Timothy Bottoms, actor , actor, comedian, director, and screenwriter , producer George W. Bush, forty-third president of the Carrie, novel by Stephen King and film Jimmy Carter, thirty-ninth president of the United States , film Dick Cheney, US vice president under George W. Bush Lionel Chetwynd, director, producer, and screenwriter Children’s Defense Fund Hillary Clinton, First Lady of the United States and US Secretary of State William “Bill” Clinton, forty-second president of the United States , actor, director, producer, and screenwriter Close Encounters of the Third Kind, film The Color Purple, novel by Alice Walker and film Columbia, film studio , composer, director, producer, and screenwriter

David Cronenberg, actor, director, and screenwriter The Copyright Great © 2018 Books Foundation

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Tom Cruise, actor and producer Anthony Curtis, actor The Day After Tomorrow, film DC 9/11: Time of Crisis, television show D-Day, World War II military offensive Deep Impact, film , director Department of Defense [DOD] , cartoonist, producer, and theme park founder Edward Dmytryk, director , US senator , actor, director, producer, and writer DreamWorks, film studio Dr. Strangelove, film Jacques Ellul, philosopher Roland Emmerich, director E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, film Fahrenheit 9/11, film Fail-Safe, film Dakota Fanning, actor , actor A Gathering of Eagles, film David Geffen, producer and studio executive , actor, director, producer, and screenwriter Jean-Luc Godard, director and screenwriter , film The Godfather: Part II, film Godzilla, monster originating from Japanese films Golem of Prague Great Depression Al Green, musician Ground Zero, New York City , actor, director, producer, and screenwriter Alfred Hitchcock, director and producer Hollywood Reporter, magazine Hollywood Writers’ Mobilization, political organization Hook, film Henry Hyde, US representative

Independence Day, film The Copyright Great © 2018 Books Foundation

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Indiana Jones and the Temple of , film Institute for Creative Technologies, University of Southern program Iraq War The Iron Curtain, film , director, producer, and screenwriter , film Jones, character in Raiders of the Ark and subsequent films in the series Carl Jung, early twentieth-century Swiss psychoanalyst and writer , film Jeffrey Katzenberg, producer and studio executive John F. Kennedy, thirty-fifth president of the United States John F. Kennedy assassination, November 22, 1963 John Kerry, US secretary of state , screenwriter Korean War John Howard Lawson, playwright and screenwriter , actor, director, producer, and screenwriter , actor Curtis LeMay, US Air Force general “Let’s Stay Together,” song Monica Lewinsky, intern Abraham Lincoln, sixteenth president of the United States Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World, film Times, newspaper , director, producer, and screenwriter David Lynch, director The Manchurian Candidate, film Marshall McLuhan, critic , prime minister of Israel MGM [Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer], film studio Minority Report, short story by Philip K. Dick and film , activist, documentary filmmaker, and writer Mossad, Israeli national intelligence agency , film , network executive Viktor Navorski, character in the filmThe Terminal , actor New York Times, newspaper

1972 Munich Olympics massacre The Copyright Great © 2018 Books Foundation

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Old Testament Bill O’Reilly, television personality and writer Oscars [] José Padilla, American convicted of aiding terrorists Paramount, film studio Walter Parkes, producer Patriot Act The Peacemaker, film Pearl Harbor, film , director , play by James Barrie and film , film PLO [Palestinian Liberation Organization] , film Raiders of the Lost Ark, film Rambo, film , actor and fortieth president of the United States , actor, director, and producer Condoleezza Rice, US secretary of state Ginger Rogers, actor, dancer, and singer Franklin Delano Roosevelt, thirty-second president of the United States , studio executive , screenwriter Donald Rumsfeld, US secretary of defense Saving Private Ryan, film Oskar Schindler, German industrialist and Nazi resister Schindler’s List, film , actor, bodybuilder, director, and governor of California , director, film historian, producer, and screenwriter September 11 attacks, 2001 terrorist act against New York City and Washington, DC , film Jeff Skoll, businessman and producer Jack Smith, actor, director, pioneer of underground filmmaking and the Seven Dwarfs, film , director, producer, and screenwriter Starship Troopers, film , film and film series , director, producer, and screenwriter

Strategic Air Command The Copyright Great © 2018 Books Foundation

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The Sum of All Fears, novel by Tom Clancy and film Sword of Gideon, television show Syriana, film Driver, film The Terminal, film , producer That’s My Bush!, television show Time, magazine Titanic, film Twentieth Century Fox, film studio UCLA [University of California at Los Angeles] Universal, film studio , book by and film Henry Wallace, US vice president under Franklin Delano Roosevelt Warner Brothers, entertainment company War of the Worlds, novel by H. G. Wells, radio broadcast, and film John Wayne, actor and producer , television show We Were Soldiers, film “When You Wish Upon a Star,” song World Trade Center Writers and Artists of the , political organization Boris Yeltsin, president of Russia Y2K panic Darryl F. Zanuck, studio executive Copyright © 2018 The Copyright Great © 2018 Books Foundation

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In the Blink of an Eye (selection)

Walter Murch

Apocalypse Now, film , director, producer, and screenwriter The Conversation, film Francis Ford Coppola, director Dragnet, television show , actor Alfred Hitchcock, director and producer , director, screenwriter, and producer Auguste and Louis Lumière, nineteenth-century French filmmakers Modest Mussorgsky, composer Pictures at an Exhibition, suite Sviatoslav Richter, musician “Ride of the Valkyries,” opera segment Rope, film The Shining, novel by Stephen King and film Richard Wagner, composer Copyright © 2018 The Copyright Great © 2018 Books Foundation

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“One Hang, We All Hang”: High Plains Drifter

Richard Hutson

Robert Altman, director, producer, and screenwriter William Bradford, governor of Plymouth Colony Harry Callahan, character in the Dirty Harry film series , actor James Fenimore Cooper, nineteenth-century writer Deadwood, television show Dirty Harry, film and film series , films:, , and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly , character based on a real-life gambler and lawman from the Old West , actor, composer, director, and producer , actor and producer , director, producer, and screenwriter , screenwriter , writer William S. Hart, actor, director, and producer , director and producer Hell’s Hinges, film Michael Henry [Wilson], film historian and filmmaker , film , director, producer, and screenwriter , director, producer, and screenwriter The Man from Laramie, film Anthony Mann, director Man of the West, film , stock character in Sergio Leone Westerns McCabe and Mrs. Miller, film McCarthyism, wave of anti-communist sentiment and fear in the , activist, actor, director, and producer Of Plymouth Plantation, book by William Bradford Once Upon a Time in the West, film The Prairie, novel by James Fenimore Cooper Ronald Reagan, actor and fortieth president of the United States

Red Harvest, novel by Dashiell Hammett The Copyright Great © 2018 Books Foundation

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Rio Bravo, film , critic and film historian Randolph Scott, actor Shane, film , director Paul Smith, writer Preston Sturges, director Jonathan Swift, eighteenth-century Anglo-Irish satirist Klaus Theweleit, sociologist and writer , screenwriter Tom Jones, novel by Henry Fielding and film Wagonmaster, film John Wayne, actor and producer Owen Wister, early twentieth-century writer Wood, critic , film Copyright © 2018 The Copyright Great © 2018 Books Foundation

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Lynch on Lynch (selection)

Chris Rodley, interview with David Lynch

Ingmar Bergman, director, producer, and screenwriter Center for Advanced , Eraserhead, film , director and screenwriter Sigmund Freud, early twentieth-century Austrian psychoanalyst and writer George Godwin, writer Werner Herzog, actor, director, screenwriter, and writer Jack Nance, actor O. J. Simpson trial Stroszek, film , director Twin Peaks, television show Walking the Perimeter of Germany, journal kept by Werner Herzog Copyright © 2018 The Copyright Great © 2018 Books Foundation

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John Wayne: A Love Song

Joan Didion

Michael Anderson Jr., actor Bible Bookbinder’s, seafood restaurant in Philadelphia, Bordeaux, type of French wine Boy Scouts of America Sammy Davis Jr., actor, comedian, dancer, and singer Jack Dempsey, boxer John Ford, director Bob Goodfried, studio executive Mack Gray, actor William S. Hart, actor, director, and producer Hatari!, film , director and producer The High and the Mighty, film Earl Holliman, actor Hedda Hopper, gossip columnist , actor J&B, brand of Scotch whisky Juicy Fruit, brand of chewing gum , actor, comedian, producer, and singer Mike Mazurki, actor and wrestler Pilar Pallete, actor and wife of John Wayne Pouilly-Fuissé, type of French white wine “The Red River Valley,” song Sigma Chi fraternity , film Estelle Taylor, actor Twentieth Century Fox, film studio University of Southern California Ralph Volkie, actor and trainer Hal Wallis, producer Raoul Walsh, actor and director War of the Wildcats, film John Wayne, actor and producer Copyright © 2018 The Copyright Great © 2018 Books Foundation

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Nonstop Action: Why Hollywood’s Aging Heroes Won’t Give Up the Gun

Adam Mars-Jones

Robert Aldrich, director , film Pedro Almodóvar, director and screenwriter Anatomy of a Murder, novel by John D. Voelker [pen name Robert Traver] and film , actor Beatles, musical group Luc Besson, director The Bodyguard, film Humphrey Bogart, actor Boyhood, film Francisca Caballero, actor , actor , writer , composer, screenwriter, and silent-film actor George Clooney, actor, director, producer, and screenwriter Ellar Coltrane, actor , actor , actor and producer , actor , actor , actor , actor , actor and singer , actor, director, and producer Gérard Depardieu, actor , film , actor and singer The Expendables 3, film , social media platform Far and Away, film Colin Firth, actor Follies, musical Henry Fonda, actor and producer

Jane Fonda, activist and actor The Copyright Great © 2018 Books Foundation

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Greta Garbo, actor The Gauntlet, film , actor , actor, comedian, and writer Gladiator, film Maggie Grace, actor Cary Grant, actor , actor Jean Harlow, actor , film Whitney , actor, producer, and singer , director, producer, and screenwriter “I’m Still Here,” song films:Raiders of the Lost Ark, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, and Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull It’s a Wonderful Life, film Stephen King, writer The King of Comedy, film Christine Lagarde, head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Life’s Too Short, television show , director and screenwriter Love Actually, film Paul McCartney, composer, musician, producer, singer, and songwriter Olivier Megaton, director Stephen Merchant, actor, comedian, and writer , actor Misery, novel by Stephen King and film Mission Impossible films:Mission Impossible, Mission Impossible 2, Mission Impossible 3, Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol, Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation, and Mission Impossible 6 Marilyn Monroe, actor Moonlighting, television show , director Mrs. Brown, film Liam Neeson, actor , film On Golden Pond, film

Oscar [Academy Award] The Copyright Great © 2018 Books Foundation

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Al Pacino, actor The Philadelphia Story, play by Philip Barry and film RED, film Edward G. Robinson, actor , television show Mickey Rourke, actor Mark Rydell, director , actor sex, lies and videotape, film The Shootist, film , director and screenwriter Stephen Sondheim, composer and lyricist James Spader, actor Steven Spielberg, director, producer, and screenwriter Star Wars films featuring :Star Wars, , The Return of the Jedi, and Star Wars: Awakens James “Jimmy” Stewart, actor , actor , film , actor, director, and screenwriter Spencer Tracy, actor , social media platform , film Victoria, nineteenth-century queen of the Gore Vidal, writer John Wayne, actor and producer Welcome to New York, film Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?, film , actor Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, film The Wrestler, film Copyright © 2018 The Copyright Great © 2018 Books Foundation

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Willing

Lorrie Moore

Anna Karenina, novel by Leo Tolstoy Autoweek, magazine , actor, civil rights activist, and director Walt Disney, cartoonist, producer, and theme park founder Marshall Field’s, department store based in Joyce Carol Oates, writer Palmer House Hotel, Chicago Django Reinhardt, composer and musician Martin Scorsese, director, film historian, producer, and screenwriter Copyright © 2018 The Copyright Great © 2018 Books Foundation

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Furiosa: The Virago of Mad Max: Fury Road

Jess Zimmerman

Academy Awards [Oscars] Alanna, novel by Tamora Pierce , film Amazons, women warriors in Greek mythology Artemis, Greek goddess of virginity and the hunt Boadicea, first-century queen of a British Celtic tribe Britomart, character in The Faerie Queene by Edward Spenser , character in the franchise , film The Faerie Queene, sixteenth-century epic poem by Edward Spenser , film released in 1984 and remade in 2016 Guardian, newspaper Tom Hardy, actor Hollywood Reporter, magazine Jillian Holtzmann, character in the 2016 filmGhostbusters Imperator Furiosa, character in Mad Max: Fury Road , television show Beatrix Kiddo, character in the filmKill Bill George Miller, director and screenwriter Orlando Furioso, sixteenth-century epic poem by Ludovico Ariosto Return of Kings, website Ellen Ripley, character in the filmAlien Semiramis, legendary Assyrian warrior queen Charlize Theron, actor Trojan horse, basis of legend from the Trojan War about the subterfuge of the Greek military Valkyries, female figures in Norse mythology who choose who lives and dies in battle Bruce Willis, actor Wired, magazine , superhero based on DC comics character Copyright © 2018 The Copyright Great © 2018 Books Foundation

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Scary Movies

Kim Addonizio

Baronet Theater, film theater in Asbury Park, New Jersey Cyclops, one-eyed monster in Greek mythology Copyright © 2018 The Copyright Great © 2018 Books Foundation

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Skyshot

Manuel Muñoz

Robert Altman, director, producer, and screenwriter , director Ned Beatty, actor Ronee Blakley, actor, singer, and songwriter Joan Crawford, actor , actor Shelley Duvall, actor, comedian, producer, singer, and screenwriter Fresno State University , director , director Nashville, film , actor Paul Newman, activist, actor, director, and producer North by Northwest, film Quetzalcoatl, Aztec creator deity , director Miklos Rozsa, composer , actor and comedian University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) University of Southern California (USC) Vietnam War , composer Copyright © 2018 The Copyright Great © 2018 Books Foundation

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Edward Hopper’s New York Movie

Joseph Stanton

Fred Astaire, actor, choreographer, dancer, and singer Hitachi, brand of electronics Edward Hopper, painter New York Movie, painting by Edward Hopper Ginger Rogers, actor, dancer, and singer Copyright © 2018 The Copyright Great © 2018 Books Foundation

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Why We Crave Horror Movies

Stephen King

The Abominable Dr. Phibes, film , film The Amityville Horror, book by Jay Anson and film The Andromeda Strain, film , actor “Baby Elephant Walk,” song , comic book, film, and television show Beatles, musical group Tony Beckley, actor Beginning of , film The Big Company Look, novel by J. Harvey Howells Black Zoo, film , actor The Body Snatcher, short story by Robert Louis Stevenson and film Born Innocent, television show , actor, director, and producer The Brood, film The Car, film Carrie, novel by Stephen King and film Neville Chamberlain, prime minister of the United Kingdom The China Syndrome, film Cleveland Torso Murderer, serial killer Colin Clive, actor Close Encounters of the Third Kind, film Robert Cornthwaite, actor The Crash of ’79, novel by Paul Emil Erdman , actor, director, and screenwriter Dawn of the Dead, film Demon Seed, film Brian De Palma, director Die, Monster, Die!, film Dom Perignon, brand of champagne Donald Duck, character in Disney cartoons , actor

John Foster Dulles, US diplomat The Copyright Great © 2018 Books Foundation

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Bob Dylan, musician, singer, and songwriter Easy Rider, film The Exorcist, novel by and film Fillmore West, venue in California Frederick’s of Hollywood, lingerie purveyor William Friedkin, director , actor , director The Forbin Project, film 4D Man, film , director Sigmund Freud, early twentieth-century Austrian psychoanalyst and writer The Funeral: Vestige or Value?, book by Paul E. Irion Garden of Eden Gas House Kids, film The Ghastly Ones, film The Godfather, film Rube Goldberg, cartoonist and inventor Gone with the Wind, novel by Margaret Mitchell and film Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, nineteenth-century folklore collectors and writers Hallmark, greeting card company Howard Hawks, director and producer Jimi Hendrix, musician, singer, and songwriter High Noon, film High School Confidential, film Alfred Hitchcock, director and producer The H-Man, film , actor The Horror of Party Beach, film “I-Feel-Like-I’m-Fixin’-to-Die Rag” [also called the “Fish Cheer”], song by Country Joe and the Fish If You Don’t Stop It, You’ll Go Blind, film The Incredible Shrinking Man, film Invasion of the Body Snatchers, film “It’s Alright Ma, I’m Only Bleeding,” song Iwo Jima Freda Jackson, actor Jack the Ripper, nineteenth-century British serial killer

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Janis Joplin, singer Julia, film Pauline Kael, critic , actor William Katt, actor John F. Kennedy assassination, November 22, 1963 Reddy Kilowatt, cartoon character used as symbol of the American electric industry Henry Kissinger, US secretary of state Stanley Kubrick, director, screenwriter, and producer , screenwriter , activist, musician, producer, singer, and songwriter Little Richard, musician, singer, and songwriter Luckies, aka Lucky Strikes, brand of cigarettes Malibu Barbie doll , actor Mercedes McCambridge, actor Paul McCartney, composer, musician, producer, singer, and songwriter McDonald’s, fast food restaurant Roger McGuinn, musician and songwriter McTeague, novel by Frank Norris Walter Mitty, character in James Thurber’s short story “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” Mondo Cane, film The Wolves, novel by Paul Erikson The Night of the Lepus, film Night of the Living Dead, film , actor, director, and writer , director Oak Ridge, Tennessee, place where atomic bomb was developed Pandora’s Box The Pit and the Pendulum, short story by and film Paula Prentiss, actor , actor Prophecy, film Psycho, film Robert Redford, actor, director, and producer Roller Boogie, film George Romero, director and writer Rosemary’s Baby, novel by and film

Stuart Rosenberg, director The Copyright Great © 2018 Books Foundation

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Diana Ross, actor and singer Katherine Ross, actor Samson, biblical Israelite warrior and judge San Andreas Fault Saturn 3, film , actor Don Siegel, director Star Wars, film and film series , novel by Ira Levin and film Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, novella by Robert Louis Stevenson Larry Talbot, character in the filmThe Wolf Man Tarantula, film The Chain Saw Massacre, film Them!, film The Thing, film They Came from Within, film , actor , actor The Turning Point, film 2001: A Space Odyssey, film Warner Brothers, entertainment company Waterford, brand of crystal When a Stranger Calls, film White Sands, New Mexico, site of “Trinity” atomic bomb test Who Goes There?, novel by John W. Campbell Woodstock Music & Art Fair, 1969 festival held in New York World War II Zion National Park, Copyright © 2018 The Copyright Great © 2018 Books Foundation

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Matinée

Robert Coover

No specific references Copyright © 2018 The Copyright Great © 2018 Books Foundation

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The Last Movie

Rachel Hadas

Othello, play by and film Orson Welles, actor, director, producer, and writer Copyright © 2018 The Copyright Great © 2018 Books Foundation

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Some Months After My Father’s Death

Sheryl St. Germain

Henry Fonda, actor and producer , play by Reginald Rose and film Copyright © 2018 The Copyright Great © 2018 Books Foundation

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The Birds (selection)

Camille Paglia

blindman’s buff, children’s game Peter Bogdanovich, actor, director, producer, and writer Salvador Dali, surrealist artist Daniel, Israelite king in the Bible Carl Dreyer, director , writer , critic Eleusinian mysteries, initiations to the cult of Demeter and Persephone in ancient , film Remi Gassmann and , inventors of the Trautonium Alberto Giacometti, sculptor and painter Guernica, 1937 painting by Pablo Picasso The Haunting, film Patty Hearst, heiress who was kidnapped at the age of nineteen , actor Alfred Hitchcock, director and producer I Confess, film Margaret M. Horwitz, writer [Evan] Hunter [aka Ed McBain], novelist and screenwriter Joan of Arc, fifteenth-century French warrior and saint Journey to the Center of the Earth, film Kon-Tiki expedition, 1947 raft journey from South America to the Polynesian Islands The Last Judgment, fresco in the Sistine Chapel by Michelangelo Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, 1907 painting by Pablo Picasso Little Orphan Annie, character in the comic strip and in film Blitz, German bombing campaign during World War II Marnie, film Michelangelo, Italian Renaissance architect, painter, poet, and sculptor Notorious, film Oedipus, mythical Greek king of Thebes Pablo Picasso, painter, printmaker, and sculptor Pietà, an artwork that depicts the Virgin Mary holding Jesus’s dead body Psycho, film Red Queen and Alice, characters in ’s 1865 book Alice in Wonderland

Saboteur, film The Copyright Great © 2018 Books Foundation

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The Birds (selection), continued

Sodom, biblical city destroyed by God for its wickedness Strangers on a Train, film Symbionese Liberation Army, left-wing US revolutionary group Trautonium, electronic musical instrument Villa of the Mysteries, building in near Pompeii in which first-century frescos survived the volcanic eruption in 70 CE George Washington, first president of the United States Copyright © 2018 The Copyright Great © 2018 Books Foundation

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Your Childhood Entertainment Is Not Sacred

Nathan Rabin

J. J. Abrams, director , director James Bond, literary character created by Ian Fleming and film series Sean Connery, actor Paul Feig, director Ghostbusters, film released in 1984 and remade in 2016 Ghostbusters 2, film Indiana Jones, character in Raiders of the Lost Ark and subsequent films in the series Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, film Jar Jar Binks, character in the filmStar Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace , director Melissa McCarthy, actor and comedian , actor , actor and comedian Chris Pratt, actor Scooby-Doo, television show and film The Smurfs, television show and film , television show and film series Star Wars, film and film series Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, television show and film Transformers, television show and film , actor Yogi Bear, television show and film Copyright © 2018 The Copyright Great © 2018 Books Foundation

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Pygmalion’s Ghost: Female AI and Technological Dream Girls

Angelica Jade Bastién

Advantageous, film AI, artificial intelligence Charlie Jane Anders, writer Kyle Buchanan, writer Justin Chang, writer “A Cyborg Manifesto,” essay by Donna Haraway Doctor Strange, film , actor Ex Machina, film , director and writer Ghost in the Shell, film , actor Donna Haraway, literary and social theorist HBO, television network Iron Fist, television show Oscar Isaac, actor Jacqueline Kim, actor Samantha Kim, actor , director LA Times, newspaper Metropolis, film , media platform New Statesman, magazine New York Magazine Ovid, first-century BCE Roman poet Jennifer Phang, director and writer Pygmalion, Greek mythological figure and play by James Urbaniak, actor , actor , television show and film Wired, magazine Jen Yamato, writer Copyright © 2018 The Copyright Great © 2018 Books Foundation

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The Solace of Preparing Fried Foods and Other Quaint Remembrances from 1960s Mississippi: Thoughts on The Help

Roxane Gay

Corrina, Corrina, film , actor and producer , magazine Medgar Evers, civil rights activist Ghost, film Golden Girls, television show The Green Mile, novel by Stephen King and film The Help, novel by Kathryn Stockett and film Bryce Howard, actor Matthew Hughey, writer , actor Jim Crow laws Junior League, women’s social and philanthropic organization John F. Kennedy, thirty-fifth president of the United States John F. Kennedy assassination, November 22, 1963 The Legend of Bagger Vance, novel by Steven Pressfield and film “magical negro,” supporting stock character in narratives Ole Miss [University of Mississippi] Oscars [Academy Awards] Robin Hood: of Thieves, film Rosewood, film The Secret Life of Bees, novel by Sue Monk Kidd and film : The Movie, film Social Problems, professional social science journal Martha Southgate, writer Sissy Spacek, actor , actor and writer Emma Stone, actor Tate Taylor, director and screenwriter of The Help , actor and model

Unbreakable, film The Copyright Great © 2018 Books Foundation

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Better Living Through Criticism: How to Think About Art, Pleasure, Beauty, and Truth (selection)

A. O. Scott

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