One detail that isn’t getting enough attention in the Great “Cinema” Discourse War of 2019 is that our collective cultural notions of what constitutes legitimate or great cinema have always been extremely limited: overwhelmingly white, overwhelmingly directed by & focused on men.
I dunno, it's hard for me to interpret the all-encompassing lack of interest that most Marvel fans have for, say, the films of Satyajit Ray, as meaningfully different from not considering those films "cinema."
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To me, given how absolute Marvel's victory is in the culture war, the fact that Marvel films will make infinitely more money, be infinitely more seen, and infinitely more loved by contemporary audiences than the films these guys love,...
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...it's unseemly to act as if the opinions of a few guys who would rather watch subtitled Japanese films from the 1950s than contemporary Marvel movies really matter.
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