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Audio: Pauline Kael on the Auteur Theory

A reading of the great film critic’s classic rebuttal.

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“I prefer him as a cartoonist”

A “Literary” responds to Eddie Campbell.

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Jim Shooter–A Second Opinion, Part One: The Best Job He Can

This is “the enemy of creators”? Really?

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Non-Fiction Review: Sean Howe, Marvel Comics: The Untold Story

Moving an icon out of the moonlight and into the sunlight.

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The Superman Case, and Best Outcomes for Writers on Comics

Approaching these matters in terms of the real world is what I’m asking for.

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Reverse Projections: Jean-Luc Godard’s Made in U. S. A.

Made in U. S. A. embodies the meaning of the term “Godardian” when used as an insult.

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Reverse Projections: Jean-Luc Godard’s Alphaville

If there was ever a story that needed to be transformed by the filmmaking process, the banal science-fiction pulp of Alphaville is it.

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