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...92—who was named as VES’ assistant director of undergraduate studies for film studies this spring—wrote in an e-mail that he was enthusiastic about the new track and one course he developed for it, VES 195, “The Contemporary Hollywood Cinema...
...class has a screening list filled with pleasures—guilty and otherwise, a reading list that will convince students that Hollywood not only can, but should be treated with intellectual seriousness, as a business and as an aesthetic system, and lectures that will cultivate, I hope, the sense that Hollywood’s industrial narcissism is its great contribution to the possibilities of collaborative popular art,” he wrote...
...Aaron McGruder, creator of the controversial comic strip The Boondocks, and Reginald Hudlin, director of the 1990 movie House Party, began as a movie script that used race as the centerpiece of a political satire. "By the time we realized how difficult that would be to sell in Hollywood, we had already fallen in love with the idea, and we just wanted it to exist," McGruder says. "If you want to tell these stories where somebody's going to see them, you've got to find a different path...
...wait for remakes? All of Nakata's and Shimizu's films are available online or at the more adventurous video stores. Check them out to see how Japan's new blood can revive Hollywood's old blood and make your blood run cold...
...book is affably illustrated by graphic novelist Kyle Baker. The comixcenti may sniff at its simple layout, but neophytes will appreciate its readability. And though it lacks the racial zings of, say, Dave Chappelle, it manages to land some clever social jabs. Hollywood is unlikely to have told this tale with more punch--if it told...