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“There’s a shift from it being about a destructive world structure to being about, ‘What can we do to live within that reality and survive it?’ That’s probably because of the War on Terror, this endless war, endless threat. There’s no end in sight.”

“We chose our big icon, you know,” Dixon says. “Drama has Shakespeare. Literature has Dickens. We have Hitchcock.”

Turkey’s wildly popular prime-time soap operas are now seen in well over 40 countries, most of them in the Muslim world. The shows’ success is giving Turkey a whole new level of cultural influence – and bringing new images and ideas of male-female relations to Arab societies.

” You pick your tribe and stick with it, because it is deft shorthand for the person you are, or perhaps the person you want to be (or be seen as).”

Yet Joss Whedon begins his movie version with one. Gina Dalfonzo makes the case for why that choice was a mistake, the film’s modern setting notwithstanding.

“In the culinary pecking order for Japanese mushrooms, the nameko, a gelatinous, light-brown, tack-size variety for the ordinary Joe, doesn’t carry” the prestige of a shiitake or matsutake. “But in the world of smartphones, this slimy mushroom – found in miso soups and soba noodles – is an unlikely videogame star.”

“Of course, most of the big superhero successes have come from iconic characters like Iron Man and Superman, who are already well-known to mainstream audiences. It will be more interesting to see in coming years is how moviegoers react to films whose superheroes who lack the brand awareness of the Avengers or X-Men.”

In “The Collaboration: Hollywood’s Pact With Hitler,” Ben Urwand draws on a wealth of previously uncited documents to argue that Hollywood studios, in an effort to protect the German market for their movies, not only acquiesced to Nazi censorship but also actively and enthusiastically cooperated with that regime’s global propaganda effort.

“Matheson’s writing lends itself particularly well to contemporary Hollywood because it’s ‘high concept’ – which translates, in screenwriting parlance, to ‘easy to pitch’. At the heart of Matheson’s best tales you’ll find a simple, compelling question.”

“If I make a movie in English, the money will come from Europe, so that I can keep my independence and freedom. The way they produce in Hollywood doesn’t fit me. There are many people with decision-making power, and I’m not accustomed to working like that. But here there are wonderful actors and actresses that I would like to work with.”