Posts Tagged ‘film’

Hero deficit? What hero deficit?

Posted on July 13th, 2008 by by Chris Lawson

In The American: A Magazine of Ideas, reviewer James Bowman says that Hollywood no longer makes films about heroes. American movies have forgotten how to portray heroism, while a large part of their disappearing audience still wants to see celluloid heroes. I mean real heroes, unqualified heroes, not those who have dominated American cinema over [...]