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taste hierarchies like these stink. And they stink because they stand in the way of actually seeing the work on its own terms. Often, what this looks like is an artist or a viewer insisting on describing TV series by way of other media, praising a good show by calling it “cinematic” or “novelistic.” It’s a cliché by this point, but the early-aughts... See more
Anne Helen Petersen • "Taste Hierarchies Like These Stink"
Much of today’s mass-produced work aims to satisfy the average. As a result, we’re left with
average
. The middle is saltine-cinema: the largest financial opportunity.
Take or leave Martin Scorsese’s critique of Marvel, his take on the state of film — this “consolidation” — shouldn’t be controversial:
average
. The middle is saltine-cinema: the largest financial opportunity.
Take or leave Martin Scorsese’s critique of Marvel, his take on the state of film — this “consolidation” — shouldn’t be controversial:
“The art of cinema is being systematically deval... See more
Matt Klein • The Creator Paradox: Cultural Stasis Amidst Creative Surplus
Nik Gupta
1d
I understand his desire to keep Slow Boring level headed, but I do feel that all to often, Matt forces you to read in between the lines and parse what he really thinks, making you study "Yglesias thought" across multiple platforms. Its annoying and I am not sure I would have stayed a paid subscriber if Harris had won. Noah Smith is a gre... See more
1d
I understand his desire to keep Slow Boring level headed, but I do feel that all to often, Matt forces you to read in between the lines and parse what he really thinks, making you study "Yglesias thought" across multiple platforms. Its annoying and I am not sure I would have stayed a paid subscriber if Harris had won. Noah Smith is a gre... See more
Mailbag: Condescending to the wine moms
The entire ecosystem of filmmaking blogs, podcasts, and YouTube channels was recycling news and churning out half-baked content at a remarkable pace. From my perch atop the ecosystem, I could watch a story break, then spread from one aggregator to the next, eventually blanketing our entire corner of the internet in a thick smog of mediocrity.
Author Address • The Ungated Manifesto
Added layers of singular value decomposition could sort for subtler factors, like action movies that don’t feature gore.
Kyle Chayka • Filterworld
They’re artwork designed to be used in various places in the app, in email marketing blasts, on Hollywood billboards, and elsewhere. Disney Plus, a huge global service, requires content providers to include lots of this stuff alongside every title, up to twice as much as Hulu requires. So part of the process for Disney has been to adapt all that Hu... See more
David Pierce • The Disney Plus-Hulu merger is way more than a streaming bundle
Three or four generations from now, the present-day entertainment medium most likely to be “studied” by cultural historians will be television, based on the belief that TV finally became a serious, meaningful art form around the turn of the twenty-first century.