October 2012 – Stephen Daisley

The cult of youth that arrived in the early 1950s with overhyped pop art such as The Catcher in the Rye and Rebel without a Cause has so successfully embedded itself in American life that even the most cutting attacks on its roots have failed to shift it. This valorization of immaturity—what Norman Podhoretz calledContinue reading “The Obama-era movie”