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I Can’t Get That Monster Out of My Mind

by Joan Didion

In this Autumn 1964 essay, the late Joan Didion takes the Hollywood film industry to task: “One problem is that American directors, with a handful of notable exceptions, are not much interested in style; they are at heart didactic,” she writes. “Ask what they plan to do with their absolute freedom, with their chance to make a personal statement, and they will pick an ‘issue,’ a ‘problem.’”

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