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The "magic hour" is the name film-makers give the pre-dusk late afternoon, when anything photographed can be bathed in a melancholy golden light. A similar mood characterized the movies of the 1990s, occasioned by cinema's 1995-96 centennial and the waning of the twentieth century, as well as the decline of cinephilia and the seemingly universal triumph of Hollywood. "The Magic Hour: Film at Fin de Siecle" anthologizes J. Hoberman's movie reviews, cultural criticism, and political essays, published in "The Village Voice", "Artforum", and elsewhere during the period bracketed by the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the World Trade Towers.Demonstrating Hoberman's range as a critic, this collection reflects on the influence of Fritz Lang, as well as Quentin Tarantino, on the end of the Western and representation of the Gulf War, the Hong Kong neo-wave and the "boomerography" manifest in the cycle of movies inspired by the reign of Bill Clinton.As in his previous anthology, "Vulgar Modernism: Writings on Movies and Other Media" (nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award), Hoberman's overriding interest is the intersection of popular culture and political power at the point where the history of film merges with what Jean-Luc Godard called "the film of history.
" J. Hoberman is the senior film critic at the "Village Voice" and Adjunct Professor of Cinema at Cooper Union. His books include "Bridge of Light: Yiddish Film Between Two Worlds" (Temple, 1995), "The Red Atlantis: Communist Culture in the Absence of Communism" (Temple, 1998), and the anthology "Vulgar Modernism: Writing on Movies and Other Media" (Temple, 1991) which was nominated for a National Book Critics Circle award in criticism.
Contents
Introduction: All as It Had Been Part I: Pulp Fictions The Lang Twentieth Century White Dog Basic Instinct Blade Runner Kiss Me Deadly Natural Born Killers Pulp Fiction Meet "Beat" Takeshi Ashes of Time Mars Attacks! Starship Troopers San Sergio Leone Part II: Adventures in Dreamland The Long Day Closes Exotica Die Hard with a Vengeance I Shot Andy Warhol Aventurera Vertigo The Truman Show There's Something about Mary (and Mary) How Star Wars Supplanted Religion, Mutated the Species, and Changed the Movies Run Shag Run Eyes Wide Shut In the Mood for Love The Man Who Cried A.I.: The Dreamlife of Androids Part III: Once and Future Vanguards Naked Lunch and Tribulation Poison Avant Retro Archangel Sergei Paradjanov Lessons of Darkness Mystery Science Theatre 3000: The Movie Dead Man Fragments * Jerusalem Mother and Son Pecker The Idiots The Wind Will Carry Us Making New Memories Mulholland Drive Part IV: The History of Film, the Film of History How the Western Was Lost Schindler's List Race Movies Jaws Quiz Show Nixon Get on the Bus Underground Point of Order Apocalypse Now and Then Back to Iraq Part V: Our Rock 'n' Roll President Clinton vs. Bush: A Lover or a Fighter? The Clinton Show Born Again Again The Remaking of the President Bob Dole, American Hero Independence Day 1996 Boom's End Entertainer-in-Chief Pleasantville: Somewhere Under the Rainbow Cine Clinton: the Contender et al. The Film Critic of Tomorrow, Today Appendix: Ten "10 Best" Lists, 1991-2000 Index
