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...spectacle of a Komodo dragon being transported across a state line for immoral purposes can be lightly dismissed. That's especially true when it also offers a delicious send-up of the contemporary passion for exotic culinary experiences and an equally wicked satire of the grander pretenses of cinema scholarship. The latter is an occupation that director Bergman, who has a Ph.D. in cultural history, narrowly escaped by turning to more self-consciously comic forms (he wrote The In-Laws and the play Social Security...
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Wrong. For the makers of many summer films, the storytelling art is passe. These talented fellows want to dream up worlds that can exist only in the cinema. Call their pictures dyna-movies, for they are dynamic rather than dramatic. They trade in sensation, in the jolts a moviegoer gets at seeing a villain's body blow up real good. Their impact is the sum of their special effects. And their tone is high facetiousness; the whole construct is an elaborate joke...
...decades, critics lamented that cinema, unlike painting and music, was yoked to narrative. Movies told stories about real people, and the audience was meant to care about them. Would Rick leave Casablanca with Ilsa? Would Scarlett get Rhett? Film theorists didn't care. They wanted movies to slip the shackles of realism and burst into modernism. For cinema to enter the intellectual mainstream, there had to be movies whose subject was movies...
...remaining women's studies course offeredfor the summer is a Visual and EnvironmentalStudies course examining the role of women inAmerican cinema...