Opening Wednesday at a Theater or Drive-In Near You

Reading Charles Taylor's Opening Wednesday is like looking in a mirror--in this case the mirror of such officially celebrated 1970s movies as The Godfather and Mean Streets. You see yourself in unfamiliar but dimly recognizable clothes that, you swear, aren't your own: slept in, utilitarian, garish, tasteless, and yet somehow beckoning, like a repressed memory. As you pass through this book, whether you know the movies Taylor dives into or not, you'll find that the book casts its own shadows: you have to see these pictures, right now.

Vorwort
"Movie criticism's Dostoyevsky . . . Taylor reveals a national identity forged from the innocence we claim to have lost but never had in the first place." --Steve Erickson, author of Zeroville

Autorentext
Charles Taylor has written on movies, books, popular culture, and politics for the New York Times, Salon, the New Yorker, the Los Angeles Times, Newsday, Dissent, the Nation, the New York Observer, Lapham's Quarterly, and others. A member of the National Society of Film Critics, Taylor has contributed to several of the society's volumes, and his work appears in Best Music Writing 2009. He has taught journalism and literature courses at the New School, the Columbia School of Journalism, and the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute at NYU. Taylor lives in New York.