I think Dennis makes an excellent point here. The comparison with film
is not equal, but it is apt.
RBH
Dennis B. K. writes:
Film has a shorter history, but even so, there's not much clamoring for
reshowings of Potemkin or The Great Dictator or Birth of a Nation or
Metropolis or even Nosferatu in preference to recent independent
films. And
in English-language literature, excellent authors Annie Proulx or Salman
Rushdie or Robertson Davies or T.C. Boyle, for example, are hardly
pop, and
are far better known among the arts-oriented general public than even
the
greatest living concert composers. That public can talk about
contemporary
literature or art film, but rarely about new nonpop. Just look at your
average artsy magazine (such as the New Yorker), even a virtual one like
Salon. It covers many topics in depth in the arts, but new nonpop has
appeared in but one discussion over the past several years.
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