The cliché of the hour is that the 21st-century screen resembles the 19th-century page--The Wire was Dickensian; Amy Schumer is the new Jane Austen; and anybody with a voice and some creative gumption can claim a Netflix slot the way realist novelists used La Revue de Paris or The Strand. It's a false comparison, needless to say. On the screen, character depth, relationship development, and other artistries of truth rest in the hands of actors; the audience has less control over what it sees, a...
The cliché of the hour is that the 21st-century screen resembles the 19th-century page--The Wire was Dickensian; Amy Schumer is the new Jane Austen; and anybody with a voice and some creative gumption can claim a Netflix slot the way realist novelists used La Revue de Paris or The Strand. It's a false comparison, needless to say. On the screen, character depth, relationship development, and other artistries of truth rest in the hands of actors; the audience has less control over what it sees, a...
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