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DOUBLE FEATURES BIG IDEAS IN FILM Reference List DOUBLE FEATURES BIG IDEAS IN FILM Reference List Yossarian Is Alive and Well in the Mexican Desert 4 Nora Ephron Countercultural Architecture and Dramatic Structure 6 David Mamet Shooting to Kill (selection) 7 Christine Vachon Laugh, Cry, Believe: Spielbergization and Its Discontents 10 J. Hoberman In the Blink of an Eye (selection) 15 Walter Murch “One Hang, We All Hang”: High Plains Drifter 16 Richard Hutson Lynch on Lynch (selection) 18 Chris Rodley, interview with David Lynch John Wayne: A Love Song 19 Joan Didion Nonstop Action: Why Hollywood’s Aging Heroes Won’t Give Up the Gun 20 Adam Mars-Jones Willing 23 Lorrie Moore The contents of this packet include proprietary trademarks and copyrighted materials, and may be used or quoted only with permission and appropriate credit to the Great Books Foundation. DOUBLE FEATURES Furiosa: The Virago of Mad Max: Fury Road 24 Jess Zimmerman Scary Movies 25 Kim Addonizio Skyshot 26 Manuel Muñoz Edward Hopper’s New York 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 Camille Paglia 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 1960s 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 – 3 – DOUBLE FEATURES Yossarian Is Alive and Well in the Mexican Desert Nora Ephron Seth Allen, actor Alan Arkin, actor, director, producer, screenwriter, and writer Bob Balaban, actor and director Martin Balsam, actor Beatles, musical group Richard “Dick” Benjamin, actor and director Susanne Benton, actor Peter Bogdanovich, actor, critic, director, producer, and writer James Bond, literary character created by Ian Fleming and film series Peter Bonerz, actor and director Richard Brooks, director, producer, screenwriter, and writer Cahiers du Cinéma, French film magazine John Calley, producer Candy, novel by Terry Southern and film Catch-22, novel by Joseph Heller and film Citizen Kane, film Columbia, film studio Norman Fell, actor Art Garfunkel, actor, musician, singer, songwriter, and writer Jack Gilford, actor The Graduate, novel by Charles Webb and film The Green Berets, film Buck Henry, screenwriter Alfred Hitchcock, director and producer Barbara Hutton, socialite and philanthropist Pauline Kael, critic Jack Lemmon, 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 Mike Nichols, director The Odd Couple, play The Copyright Great © 2018 Books Foundation – 4 – DOUBLE FEATURES Yossarian Is Alive and Well in the Mexican Desert, continued Sam O’Steen, film editor Paramount/Filmways, film studio Austin Pendleton, actor Anthony Perkins, actor Plaza Suite, play Paula Prentiss, actor Richard Quine, screenwriter Jean Renoir, actor, director, producer, screenwriter, and writer Andrew Sarris, critic Richard Sylbert, designer Elizabeth Taylor, 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 John Wayne, actor and producer Orson Welles, 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 – 5 – DOUBLE FEATURES Countercultural Architecture and Dramatic Structure David Mamet ADR (automatic dialogue reading) Frank Capra, director, producer, and screenwriter Cary Grant, actor Werner Herzog, actor, director, screenwriter, and writer Copyright © 2018 The Copyright Great © 2018 Books Foundation – 6 – DOUBLE FEATURES Shooting to Kill (selection) Christine Vachon Julie Andrews, actor, musician, and writer Angelika Film Center, film theater in New York City anorexia nervosa, eating disorder that results in unhealthy weight loss Apparatus, film production company Patricia Arquette, actor Barbie doll Bard College Basquiat, film Warren Beatty, actor, director, producer, and screenwriter Bonnie and Clyde, film Boogie Nights, film The Brady Bunch, 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 The Conversation, film Tom Cruise, actor and producer Ira Deutchman, producer DuArt, film laboratory Barry Ellsworth, producer The English Patient, film Entertainment Tonight, television show Karen Finley, performance artist Michel Foucault, social and literary theorist The 400 Blows, 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 – 7 – DOUBLE FEATURES Shooting to Kill (selection), continued I’m Losing You, novel by Bruce Wagner and film I Shot Andy Warhol, film Tom Kalin, director Kids, film Killer Films, 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. 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Mencken, early twentieth-century critic and journalist Metro, film theater in New York City Christian Metz, film theorist The Michael Alig Story, film script Midnight Cowboy, 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 Pulp Fiction, film Lou Reed, musician, singer, and songwriter Jean Renoir, director, screenwriter, actor, and producer Jonathan Rhys Meyers, actor Jacques Rivette, director Alain Robbe-Grillet, director, screenwriter, and writer The Rules of the Game, film Safe, film “Satellite of Love,” song by Lou Reed Sherwood Schwartz, television producer The Copyright Great © 2018 Books Foundation – 8 – DOUBLE FEATURES Shooting to Kill (selection), continued Cindy Sherman, director and photographer Bill Sherwood, director Shine, film Simply Halston, film project Slamdance Film Festival Sling Blade, film John Sloss, attorney Slumdance Film Festival Todd Solondz, 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 Sundance Film Festival 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 Space Odyssey, film Variety, magazine Velvet Goldmine, film Washington Post, newspaper Welcome to the Dollhouse, film Reverend Donald Wildmon, founder of the American Family Association Zeitgeist, film distributor Copyright © 2018 The Copyright Great © 2018 Books Foundation – 9 – DOUBLE FEATURES Laugh, Cry, Believe: Spielbergization and Its Discontents J. Hoberman Gila Almagor, actor al Qaeda Robert Altman, director, producer, and screenwriter Amistad, film Philip Anschutz, fundraiser and producer Apocalypse Now, 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 Humphrey Bogart, actor Timothy Bottoms, actor Albert Brooks, actor, comedian, director, and screenwriter Jerry Bruckheimer, producer George W. Bush, forty-third president of the United States Carrie, novel by Stephen King and film Jimmy Carter, thirty-ninth president of the United States Catch Me If You Can, 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 George Clooney, actor, director, producer, and screenwriter Close Encounters of the Third Kind, film The Color Purple, novel by Alice Walker and film Columbia, film studio Francis Ford Coppola, composer, director, producer, and screenwriter David Cronenberg, actor, director, and screenwriter The Copyright Great © 2018 Books Foundation – 10 – DOUBLE FEATURES Laugh, Cry, Believe: Spielbergization and Its Discontents, continued 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 Brian De Palma, director Department of Defense [DOD] Walt Disney, cartoonist, producer, and theme park founder Edward Dmytryk, director Bob Dole, US senator Kirk Douglas, actor, director, producer, and writer DreamWorks, film studio