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Ruth Evenson, the manager of Pandemonium Books in Harvard Square, credits the marketing industry and a “media driven” world for the rise in the genre??s popularity. Though she said the reading population was dropping, science fiction has expanded with ease into other mediums. Computer and video games, graphic novels and manga have repackaged many of science fiction’s themes for a younger, modern audience...
John Grierson, whose monograph First Principles of Documentary set forth some of the genre??s initial conventions, took a more humanistic view than Hitchcock. He once stated: “In documentary we deal with the actual, and in one sense with the real. But the really real…is something deeper than that. The only reality which counts in the end is the interpretation which is profound...
...however, certain flaws are inherent in every entry in the B-revenge genre??a modern standard for which was set by Scott with 1990’s aptly-titled Revenge—and even this craftsman cannot avoid them. Think about it this way: Marc Anthony appears in Man looking like an extra from Wall Street, but that cannot hide his essential sensual smoulder from coming through. Tony Scott’s latest effort may have as many gaps as the CIA’s last intelligence report, but the man who brought the world Ice Man still...
Part three of Lucas Belvaux’s The Trilogy comes to the Brattle to finish the series. Each one features interlocking stories—a major character in one is a minor one in the next—and is done as a different genre??the first and second films were a thriller and a comedy, respectively—leaving this melodrama to complete the story. This features Pascal, a cop and his heroin abuser wife that he loves too much to cut her off. In fact, he does whatever he can to make sure...
...which perfected the marriage of experimentation and functionality, becoming an icon of the nascent subgenre known as “microhouse.” Tracks like “Tessio” and “Class” were radically insular for house music. Instead of satisfying that genre??s anthemic impulse, they called attention to their nuanced internal rhythms, suggesting the need to listen actively with one’s ears as much as the body. Intercut by melody and vocals (lyrics, even), Vocalcity’s sonic architecture stepped above dance music?...