@inbook{10.2307/j.ctt5hhwx7.4, ISBN = {9780813543277}, URL = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt5hhwx7.4}, abstract = {Late in June of 1982, in a mumbling crowd, and daydreaming about the stars, I followed two nine- or ten-year-old boys out of a screening ofE.T. the Extra-Terrestrial. As we hit the cold light of day and turned onto the sidewalk outside the theater, one said to the other, rather drily, I thought, “Good directing.” “Yeah,” said his friend, “and excellent cinematography.” For the “Wow!” I waited, but it never came. Now, it is easy to imagine these two as recent Ph.D.s in cinema studies, still, perhaps—I hope not!—holding back that “Wow!”It seems necessary to take}, bookauthor = {Murray Pomerance}, booktitle = {The Horse Who Drank the Sky: Film Experience Beyond Narrative and Theory}, pages = {1--9}, publisher = {Rutgers University Press}, title = {OVERTURE}, year = {2008} }