Steve Bowbrick: film writer, blogger, technologist.
These are mostly from my Substack newsletter GROSS, which is a chronological history of Hollywood told through the top-grossing films of every year since 1913 – plus regular contemporary intrusions. I’ve been going around calling it a materialist project because I want always to historicise the film I’m writing about, to put it up against the political and cultural moment of its creation.
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The Godfather is a melodrama and the Long Good Friday is an epic.
A spaceship is a workplace: 2001: A Space Odyssey and Mickey 17.
The Graduate: boomer cruelty and hermetic individualism.
A partial Goldfinger alphabet and a partial Die Hard alphabet.
West Side Story: camp makes tragedy impossible.
The Apprentice: midtown mendacity and downtown depravity.
Rear Window: Hitchcock and Jane Jacobs on the grid.
Samson and Delilah – biblical tribal screwball.
Gone With The Wind: a Confederate monument.