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Michael Pollak wrote:
>
> On Thu, 18 Mar 2010, Doug Henwood wrote:
>
> > Like I said, I'm usually allergic to these implied Golden Age
> > narratives, but I think he's got a point. It's not just big money
> > stuff like the movies. It's fiction too, isn't it?
>
> Sidestepping both the film and literature discussions for the moment, I
> would just like to point out in passing that if you really wanted a
> fictional Picture of Society at this Moment in History in the
> Dickens/Balzac/Tolstoy mode with a cast of dozens, the best place to look
> today would probably be TV, things like The Sopranos or The Wire.
> Nowadays maybe Mad Men, which is doing the same with recent history,
> showing us the enormous gulf of the little details. The long-arc fiction
> series is an art form that has combined both innovation and seriousness in
> recent decades.
>
> Maybe part of the problem is asking the same form to fulfill the same
> function in a different era.
>
> Michael
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