{"id":436,"date":"2012-03-06T12:36:51","date_gmt":"2012-03-06T20:36:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=436"},"modified":"2012-03-06T12:39:39","modified_gmt":"2012-03-06T20:39:39","slug":"notebook-on-cities-and-culture-s1e7-geographical-verisimilitude-with-david-bax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=436","title":{"rendered":"Notebook on Cities and Culture S1E7: Geographical Verisimilitude with David Bax"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Colin Marshall sits down in North Hollywood with film and television critic David Bax, co-host of the podcasts Battleship Pretension<\/em><\/a> and Previously On<\/em><\/a>. They discuss his fifth-grade shoving match over Ghostbusters<\/em>; the difference between criticism and the assertion of one’s opinions; being a film and television critic while living right near the heart of film and television production; Chicago’s advantages as a filmgoing city, including but not limited to the Gene Siskel Film Center; discovering a cinephile community on the bus; St. Louis and other cities’ loss of local critics writing with local sensibilities; whether the aspiring critic must first reject working in production; the sharpening of his critical perspectives on formalism and structuralism as revealed by Michael Mann’s Public Enemies<\/em>; if a critic should tell an audience why they like a film, why the audience should like a film, why the audience should pay attention to a film, or simply how a film works; why the internet offers a superior medium for television criticism; what television can do that film can’t, and why to watch them differently; whether television shows labor under a corrupting business model; Treme<\/em>, New Orleans and geographical verisimilitude; the askew real-placeness of many Los Angeles productions; the outdated marketing of television as evidenced by the Whitney <\/em>billboards that once littered town; how and why to avoid approaching art as commodity; what he would say to those who who don’t consider criticism a “real job” (and how he would agree with them); and the necessity of discussing film and television as if for posterity, just as a program like The Sopranos<\/em> seems to have been created for it.<\/p>\n

Download the interview from Notebook on Cities and Culture\u2019<\/em>s feed here<\/a> or on iTunes here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

(Photo: Jenny Smith)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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