Occupied Territories

My emphasis is on cinema as shared fantasy and social myth. In that sense Spartacus, The Manchurian Candidate, Dr. Strangelove, Bonnie and Clyde, The Wild Bunch, Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song, and Dirty Harry may be understood as movies that, in effect, directed their directors. (Filmmakers may make movies, but they do not necessarily make them as they please.)

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J. Hoberman, The Dream Life: Movies, Media, and the Mythology of the Sixties

(Via Jessica Winter)