Comments on: Panic in the 70s https://idlermag.com/2010/09/03/panic-in-the-70s/ A U.S. Webzine: 2010-2013 Mon, 06 Sep 2010 22:59:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Tony Comstock https://idlermag.com/2010/09/03/panic-in-the-70s/#comment-37 Sat, 04 Sep 2010 12:34:08 +0000 http://idler-mag.com/?p=209#comment-37 The bigger narrative is that commerce is the enemy of creativity. It’s a narrative that permeates discourse on the arts, and it’s toxic.

]]> By: Gavin Craig https://idlermag.com/2010/09/03/panic-in-the-70s/#comment-30 Fri, 03 Sep 2010 19:09:00 +0000 http://idler-mag.com/?p=209#comment-30 In reply to Tony Comstock.

Yeah, I think it’s hard to argue that any era of filmmaking wasn’t driven by the box office. There was, however, something of a shift of day-to-day artistic control on a film from the studio to the director, no? Or at least that’s the narrative we’ve been sold–“a crop of young directors influenced by the French new wave brought auteur filmmaking to the US!”

I’d also be interested in how the paranoid sub-genre related to earlier films such as “The Manchurian Candidate.” What’s the difference between 50s and 70s paranoia? (Fear-of-other in “Manchuria” and the Bond films to fear-of-self in the 70s?)

]]> By: Tony Comstock https://idlermag.com/2010/09/03/panic-in-the-70s/#comment-29 Fri, 03 Sep 2010 18:58:39 +0000 http://idler-mag.com/?p=209#comment-29 “In the 100+ year history of cinema, there is no doubt in my mind that the 70s represented the best era of filmmaking. It was a time driven by creativity, not box office.”

Yes to the first sentence. No no no NO!!! to the second.

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