(Ebook) Movie Wars: How Hollywood And The Media Limit What Movies we Can See by Jonathan Rosenbaum ISBN 9781556524547, 9781556529924, 1556524544, 1556529929

(Ebook) Movie Wars: How Hollywood And The Media Limit What Movies we Can See by Jonathan Rosenbaum ISBN 9781556524547, 9781556529924, 1556524544, 1556529929

Is the cinema, as writers from David Denby to Susan Sontag have claimed, really dead? Contrary to what we have been led to believe, films are better than ever—we just can’t see the good ones. While the average American can usually find a book or record that has not been endorsed by the mainstream media, when it comes to movies, consumers are powerless against what Rosenbaum calls "the media-industrial complex."Movie Wars cogently explains how movies are packaged, distributed, and promoted, and how, at every stage of the process, the potential moviegoer is treated with contempt. Using examples ranging from the New York Times's coverage of the Cannes Film Festival to the anti-commercial practices of Orson Welles, from the American Film Institute to the major studios, and from Small Soldiers to Starship Troopers, Movie Wars details the workings of the powerful forces that are in the process of ruining our precious cinematic culture and heritage, and the counterforces that have begun to fight back.