The Disappearance of Wonder?

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Ty Burr worries that children's stories translated into the cinematic medium risk losing their "innocence." He makes the point that successful stories for children "address profound aspects of childhood while seeming to look the other way." Films, by contrast, refuse to look away and offer so much information that little room is left for the imagination. I was reminded of early anxieties about sound film. In an essay on the Culture Industry...

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