The Ever-Shrinking Cinematic Storytelling Complex, Part Trois

Back in late 2005, I linked to essays by Brian Anderson, Edward Jay Epstein, and Mark Steyn, each describing how political correctness has limited Hollywood’s ability to tell stories–which is why today’s conventional live-action Hollywood movie typically only comes in one of a handful of flavors:

Two fairly disparate sources note that two more genres are, if not dead, then certainly in the cinematic equivalent of intensive care: Time magazine ponders, “Who Killed the Love Story” in Hollywood. And Camille Paglia declares “Art movies: R.I.P.” with the concurrent deaths of Bergman and Antonioni. That’s in addition to the demise of middlebrow culture in general, which Terry Teachout discussed last year.

Like I said…