The girls don't know film history
Ray has argued that the dated aspects of films directed by William Wellman are more valuable than the relative "timelessness" of those directed by HowardHawks because they have more to tell us about the worlds they came from-which is another way of saying that film criticism can and should be a way of writing about the world.'
Jonathan Rosenbaum • Goodbye Cinema, Hello Cinephilia: Film Culture in Transition
IN 2002, ACCORDING TO THE self-appointed cultural anthropologists at Newsweek magazine, there were exactly three types of teenage girls in America. You could be an Alpha: a blonde who loved cheerleading, worshiped Gwyneth and Vogue, and managed to be “both bitchy and nice.” You could be a Beta, which was basically an aspiring Alpha; Betas reportedl... See more