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Vanishing Cinematic Genres

Remember the old ads: SEE The Sacrifice of a Hundred Virgins! The Fall of Babylon! Mighty Armies Clash in the Fiercest Battle Ever! You don’t see ads like that any more. For one simple reason: they don’t make movies like that any more. Hollywood spectacles were, at their worst, at least entertaining.

July 1, 1969
James L. Jones

Vanishing Cinematic Genres

PART I: THE SPECTACLE

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