Word: fictions
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...easiest to see the consequences of this attitude when it is applied to fiction. In a chapter called "My Three Stooges," Wolfe recounts the reception of his long-anticipated 1998 novel, A Man In Full. Not only was the novel a terrific commercial success, but it provoked strong reactions from a trio of highly respected novelists: John H. Updike''54, Norman K. Mailer '43, and John Irving. As Wolfe explains, these are his three stooges. The chapter is hilarious, self-serving, and provocative; Wolfe uses his three stooges to make his case for the future of the American novel...
...virus (or one strikingly similar to it) has been the unseen evil in major Hollywood productions (Outbreak, with Dustin Hoffman), books of fiction (Outbreak, without Dustin Hoffman) and even, most famously, a best-selling nonfiction treatment (The Hot Zone), and with good reason. The virus has all the makings of a 21st century horror: It is invisible, lightning quick, mysterious and horrible...
...Daniel Myrick didn't come close to producing the most starkly terrifying film ever (still Jaws, hands down), yet their marketing campaign and use of the Internet was nothing short of genius. By going beyond the boundaries of the theater, by creating an entire web of fact and fiction that blurred the lines of reality, by making more than just a movie, Sanchez and Myrick truly delivered the first piece of 21st century filmmaking...
...screenplay with Frank Miller, who wrote the Dark Knight Returns, we'll see what happens. But we haven't started working on it, we haven't even started thinking about it, the deal's not done. Right now I'm also working on an original new science-fiction film. I've been working on it for ten months, it's untitled, and I'm going to push everything forward, and see what comes out first...
...dramatist is denied these techniques. Theater cannot create perspective with the same precision as fiction and film. A playwright may only present what a character does and says or what others do and say with regard to that character. He or she cannot force the audience to look at those actions or words from a specific point of view. Thus, in the case of madness, the inner development of a victim of insanity cannot be easily conveyed, for an audience will be prone to classify all varieties of irrational behavior and speech as more or less the same. Madness itself...