![]() ![]() Ballard being ridiculed because his chosen medium is the same as Danielle Steel's. Imagine no one taking Polanski's Chinatown seriously because of Verhoeven's Robocop. ![]() ![]() Imagine a world where the worst exemplars of a medium are de facto considered the best that medium can achieve. Imagine a cultural landscape where cinema is considered nothing more than a medium to display sensationalistic visual effects: from the onrushing train of the Lumière brothers to Imax where prose fiction is seen as nothing more than a vehicle for romantic fantasies of haute société where no one can be convinced that television is good for anything but live transmissions of grand events and glorifications of consumer culture. Jimmy Corrigan, The Smartest Kid on EarthĬhris Ware: The Smartest Cartoonist on Earth Review | Jimmy Corrigan, The Smartest Kid on Earth by Chris Ware ![]()
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