Going Steady (book)
''Going Steady: Film Writings 1968–1969'' is the third collection of film reviews by the critic Pauline Kael, comprising the years 1968–1969, when she first began her film-reviewing duties at The New Yorker and which covers, " a crucial period of social and aesthetic change at the end of the sixties."Pauline Kael, Foreword, ''Going Steady'' The collection for the most part consists of reviews of individual films, but includes one long essay, (which appeared originally in ''Harper's Magazine''), entitled "''Trash, Art, and the Movies ''", perhaps the closest Kael comes to a manifesto defining her personal aesthetics in regards to films. In the essay, Kael dissects, compares, and contrasts the merits of "trash" films that are nevertheless entertaining, as well as "art" films that are uninteresting. In doing so, Kael lambastes "art" films such as Kubrick's ''2001: A Space Odyssey (film), 2001: A Space Odyssey'', concluding her treatment of that particular film by declaring: "If ...
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