More and more, just a few canonical classics, such as Michael
Curtiz's "Casablanca" (1942) or Victor Fleming's "Gone With The
Wind" (1939), are representing the entire output of an era to a new
generation that knows little of the past, and is encouraged by
popular media to live only in the eternal present. What will happen
to the rest of the films that enchanted, informed and transported
audiences in the 1930s, 1940s, and even as recently as the
1960s?
For the most part, these films will be forgotten, and their
makers with them. Wheeler Winston Dixon argues that even obvious
historical markers such as Alfred Hitchcock's "Psycho" (1960)
represent shockingly unknown territory for the majority of today's
younger viewers; and yet once exposed to these films, they are
enthralled by them. In the 1980s and 1990s, the more adventurous
video stores served a vital function as annals of classic cinema.
Today, those stores are gone and the days of this kind of browsing
are over.
This collection of essays aims to highlight some of the
lesser-known films of the past - the titles that are being pushed
aside and forgotten in today's oversaturation of the present. The
work is divided into four sections, rehabilitating the films and
filmmakers who have created some of the most memorable phantom
visions of the past century, but who, for whatever reason, have not
successfully made the jump into the contemporary consciousness.
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