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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
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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 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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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. 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 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
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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
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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
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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 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 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 Jane Fonda, actor A Gathering of Eagles, film David Geffen, producer and studio executive Mel Gibson, actor, director, producer, and screenwriter Jean-Luc Godard, director and screenwriter The Godfather, 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 Tom Hanks, 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 Doom, film Institute for Creative Technologies, University of Southern California program Iraq War The Iron Curtain, film Peter Jackson, director, producer, and screenwriter Jaws, film Indiana Jones, character in Raiders of the Lost Ark and subsequent films in the series Carl Jung, early twentieth-century Swiss psychoanalyst and writer Jurassic Park, 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 David Koepp, screenwriter Korean War John Howard Lawson, playwright and screenwriter Spike Lee, actor, director, producer, and screenwriter Janet Leigh, actor Curtis LeMay, US Air Force general “Let’s Stay Together,” song Monica Lewinsky, White House intern Abraham Lincoln, sixteenth president of the United States Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World, film Los Angeles Times, newspaper George Lucas, director, producer, and screenwriter David Lynch, director The Manchurian Candidate, film Marshall McLuhan, critic Golda Meir, prime minister of Israel MGM [Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer], film studio Minority Report, short story by Philip K. Dick and film Michael Moore, activist, documentary filmmaker, and writer Mossad, Israeli national intelligence agency Munich, film Rupert Murdoch, network executive Viktor Navorski, character in the filmThe Terminal Liam Neeson, 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 [Academy Awards] José Padilla, American convicted of aiding terrorists Paramount, film studio Walter Parkes, producer Patriot Act The Peacemaker, film Pearl Harbor, film Arthur Penn, director Peter Pan, play by James Barrie and film Philadelphia, film PLO [Palestinian Liberation Organization] Psycho, film Raiders of the Lost Ark, film Rambo, film Ronald Reagan, actor and fortieth president of the United States Robert Redford, 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 Steve Ross, studio executive Robert Rossen, screenwriter Donald Rumsfeld, US secretary of defense Saving Private Ryan, film Oskar Schindler, German industrialist and Nazi resister Schindler’s List, film Arnold Schwarzenegger, actor, bodybuilder, director, and governor of California Martin Scorsese, director, film historian, producer, and screenwriter September 11 attacks, 2001 terrorist act against New York City and Washington, DC Seven Days in May, film Jeff Skoll, businessman and producer Jack Smith, actor, director, pioneer of underground filmmaking Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, film Steven Spielberg, director, producer, and screenwriter Starship Troopers, film Star Wars, film and film series Oliver Stone, 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 Taxi Driver, film The Terminal, film Irving Thalberg, 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 Vengeance, book by George Jonas 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 Watergate scandal John Wayne, actor and producer The West Wing, television show We Were Soldiers, film “When You Wish Upon a Star,” song World Trade Center Writers and Artists of the Soviet Union, 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 Ingmar Bergman, director, producer, and screenwriter The Conversation, film Francis Ford Coppola, director Dragnet, television show Gene Hackman, actor Alfred Hitchcock, director and producer Stanley Kubrick, director, screenwriter, and producer Auguste and Louis Lumière, nineteenth-century French filmmakers Modest Mussorgsky, composer Pictures at an Exhibition, piano 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 Gary Cooper, actor James Fenimore Cooper, nineteenth-century writer Deadwood, television show Dirty Harry, film and film series Dollars trilogy, films:A Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More, and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly Wyatt Earp, character based on a real-life gambler and lawman from the Old West Clint Eastwood, actor, composer, director, and producer Henry Fonda, actor and producer John Ford, director, producer, and screenwriter Carl Foreman, screenwriter Dashiell Hammett, writer William S. Hart, actor, director, and producer Howard Hawks, director and producer Hell’s Hinges, film Michael Henry [Wilson], film historian and filmmaker High Noon, film Akira Kurosawa, director, producer, and screenwriter Sergio Leone, director, producer, and screenwriter The Man from Laramie, film Anthony Mann, director Man of the West, film Man With No Name, stock character in Sergio Leone Westerns McCabe and Mrs. Miller, film McCarthyism, wave of anti-communist sentiment and fear in the 1950s Paul Newman, 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 Richard Schickel, critic and film historian Randolph Scott, actor Shane, film Don Siegel, director Paul Smith, writer Preston Sturges, director Jonathan Swift, eighteenth-century Anglo-Irish satirist Klaus Theweleit, sociologist and writer Ernest Tidyman, screenwriter Tom Jones, novel by Henry Fielding and film Vietnam War Wagonmaster, film John Wayne, actor and producer Owen Wister, early twentieth-century writer Robin Wood, critic Yojimbo, 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 Film Studies, American Film Institute Eraserhead, film Federico Fellini, 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 Jacques Tati, 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, Pennsylvania 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 Henry Hathaway, director and producer The High and the Mighty, film Earl Holliman, actor Hedda Hopper, gossip columnist Martha Hyer, actor J&B, brand of Scotch whisky Juicy Fruit, brand of chewing gum Dean Martin, 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 The Sons of Katie Elder, 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 All About Eve, film Pedro Almodóvar, director and screenwriter Anatomy of a Murder, novel by John D. Voelker [pen name Robert Traver] and film Kathy Bates, actor Beatles, musical group Luc Besson, director The Bodyguard, film Humphrey Bogart, actor Boyhood, film Francisca Caballero, actor James Cagney, actor Truman Capote, writer Charlie Chaplin, composer, screenwriter, and silent-film actor George Clooney, actor, director, producer, and screenwriter Ellar Coltrane, actor Sean Connery, actor Kevin Costner, actor and producer Joan Crawford, actor Macaulay Culkin, actor Bette Davis, actor James Dean, actor Judi Dench, actor and singer Robert De Niro, actor, director, and producer Gérard Depardieu, actor Destry Rides Again, film Marlene Dietrich, actor and singer The Expendables 3, film Facebook, 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 Richard Gere, actor Ricky Gervais, actor, comedian, and writer Gladiator, film Maggie Grace, actor Cary Grant, actor Hugh Grant, actor Jean Harlow, actor Home Alone, film Whitney Houston, actor, producer, and singer John Hughes, director, producer, and screenwriter “I’m Still Here,” song Indiana Jones 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 Richard Linklater, director and screenwriter Love Actually, film Paul McCartney, composer, musician, producer, singer, and songwriter Olivier Megaton, director Stephen Merchant, actor, comedian, and writer Helen Mirren, 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 Pierre Morel, director Mount Rushmore Mrs. Brown, film Liam Neeson, actor North by Northwest, 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 Robot Chicken, television show Mickey Rourke, actor Mark Rydell, director Eva Marie Saint, actor sex, lies and videotape, film The Shootist, film Steven Soderbergh, director and screenwriter Stephen Sondheim, composer and lyricist James Spader, actor Steven Spielberg, director, producer, and screenwriter Star Wars films featuring Harrison Ford:Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back, The Return of the Jedi, and Star Wars: The Force Awakens James “Jimmy” Stewart, actor Meryl Streep, actor Taken, film Quentin Tarantino, actor, director, and screenwriter Spencer Tracy, actor Twitter, social media platform Vertigo, film Victoria, nineteenth-century queen of the United Kingdom Gore Vidal, writer John Wayne, actor and producer Welcome to New York, film Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?, film Bruce Willis, 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 Marlon Brando, actor, civil rights activist, and director Walt Disney, cartoonist, producer, and theme park founder Marshall Field’s, department store based in Chicago 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 Alien, 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 Lara Croft, character in the Tomb Raider franchise Die Hard, film The Faerie Queene, sixteenth-century epic poem by Edward Spenser Ghostbusters, 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 Jessica Jones, 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 Wonder Woman, 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 Hal Ashby, director Ned Beatty, actor Ronee Blakley, actor, singer, and songwriter Joan Crawford, actor Melvyn Douglas, actor Shelley Duvall, actor, comedian, producer, singer, and screenwriter Fresno State University William Friedkin, director Sidney Lumet, director Nashville, film Patricia Neal, actor Paul Newman, activist, actor, director, and producer North by Northwest, film Quetzalcoatl, Aztec creator deity Martin Ritt, director Miklos Rozsa, composer Lily Tomlin, actor and comedian University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) University of Southern California (USC) Vietnam War John Williams, 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 American Graffiti, film The Amityville Horror, book by Jay Anson and film The Andromeda Strain, film James Arness, actor “Baby Elephant Walk,” song Batman, comic book, film, and television show Beatles, musical group Tony Beckley, actor Beginning of the End, film The Big Company Look, novel by J. Harvey Howells Black Zoo, film Linda Blair, actor The Body Snatcher, short story by Robert Louis Stevenson and film Born Innocent, television show James Brolin, 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, 1930s serial killer Colin Clive, actor Close Encounters of the Third Kind, film Robert Cornthwaite, actor The Crash of ’79, novel by Paul Emil Erdman David Cronenberg, actor, director, and screenwriter Cuban Missile Crisis 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 Richard Dreyfuss, actor
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Why We Crave Horror Movies, continued
Bob Dylan, musician, singer, and songwriter Easy Rider, film The Exorcist, novel by William Peter Blatty and film Fillmore West, venue in California Frederick’s of Hollywood, lingerie purveyor William Friedkin, director Peter Fonda, actor Bryan Forbes, director The Forbin Project, film 4D Man, film John Frankenheimer, 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 Dennis Hopper, 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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Why We Crave Horror Movies, continued
Janis Joplin, singer Julia, film Pauline Kael, critic Boris Karloff, 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 Charles Lederer, screenwriter John Lennon, activist, musician, producer, singer, and songwriter Little Richard, musician, singer, and songwriter Luckies, aka Lucky Strikes, brand of cigarettes Malibu Barbie doll Peter Masterson, 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 Money Wolves, novel by Paul Erikson The Night of the Lepus, film Night of the Living Dead, film Leonard Nimoy, actor, director, and writer Christian Nyby, director Oak Ridge, Tennessee, place where atomic bomb was developed Pandora’s Box The Pit and the Pendulum, short story by Edgar Allan Poe and film Paula Prentiss, actor Vincent Price, actor Prophecy, film Psycho, film Robert Redford, actor, director, and producer Roller Boogie, film George Romero, director and writer Rosemary’s Baby, novel by Ira Levin 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 Margaret Sheridan, actor Don Siegel, director Star Wars, film and film series The Stepford Wives, 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 Texas Chain Saw Massacre, film Them!, film The Thing, film They Came from Within, film Kenneth Tobey, actor John Travolta, 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, Utah 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 William Shakespeare 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 Twelve Angry Men, 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 Cold War Salvador Dali, surrealist artist Daniel, Israelite king in the Bible Carl Dreyer, director Daphne du Maurier, writer Raymond Durgnat, critic Eleusinian mysteries, initiations to the cult of Demeter and Persephone in ancient Greece Frenzy, film Remi Gassmann and Oskar Sala, 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 Tippi Hedren, 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 1920s comic strip and in film London 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 Lewis Carroll’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 Statue of Liberty Strangers on a Train, film Symbionese Liberation Army, left-wing US revolutionary group Trautonium, electronic musical instrument Villa of the Mysteries, building in Rome 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 Michael Bay, 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 Rian Johnson, director Melissa McCarthy, actor and comedian Roger Moore, actor Bill Murray, actor and comedian Chris Pratt, actor Scooby-Doo, television show and film The Smurfs, television show and film Star Trek, television show and film series Star Wars, film and film series Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, television show and film Transformers, television show and film Kristen Wiig, 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 Jennifer Ehle, actor Ex Machina, film Alex Garland, director and writer Ghost in the Shell, film Domhnall Gleeson, actor Donna Haraway, literary and social theorist HBO, television network Iron Fist, television show Oscar Isaac, actor Jacqueline Kim, actor Samantha Kim, actor Fritz Lang, director LA Times, newspaper Metropolis, film Netflix, 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 George Bernard Shaw James Urbaniak, actor Alicia Vikander, actor Westworld, 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 Viola Davis, actor and producer Entertainment Weekly, 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 Dallas Howard, actor Matthew Hughey, writer Allison Janney, 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: Prince of Thieves, film Rosewood, film The Secret Life of Bees, novel by Sue Monk Kidd and film Sex and the City: The Movie, film Social Problems, professional social science journal Martha Southgate, writer Sissy Spacek, actor Octavia Spencer, actor and writer Emma Stone, actor Tate Taylor, director and screenwriter of The Help Tony Awards Cicely Tyson, 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
The Avengers, film Avengers: Age of Ultron, film Anton Ego, character in the filmRatatouille Huffington Post, website The Incredibles, film Samuel L. Jackson, actor Marvel Entertainment, publisher and film studio New York Times, newspaper Photoshop, computer program used to alter images Pixar, film studio Ratatouille, film Remy, character in the filmRatatouille Twitter, social media platform Walt Disney Company, entertainment company Joss Whedon, director Mace Windu, character in Star Wars films Jules Winnfield, character in the filmPulp Fiction Copyright © 2018 The Copyright Great © 2018 Books Foundation
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