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film critic, new yorker (weekly publication)
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I have a, perhaps, unhealthy obsession with New Yorker film critic David Denby. I know the criticisms: that he’s unnecessarily dour, that in his fervent anti-Hollywoodism he’s a sort of a reduced Pauline Kael, that he called Crash a great American movie. After he released Snark— his much-derided, painfully dowdy, anti-Internet screed about contemporary cynicism— I knew I put my intellectual money on the right racehorse. When I look around me I see a sort of fragmented intellectual culture that in its attempts to be cross-disciplinary and anti-hegemonic is unwilling to plainly assert a monolithic interpretation. Mr. Denby represents a dedication to the “big idea;” right or wrong, he’s willing to make a risky, singular, broad argument. I love it and I want to emulate it.
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- personal statement
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