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David Denby

Middle-Aged Film Critic Writes a Book Railing Against Snark; Man on Internet Agrees

Alex Remington | Posted 04.19.2009 | Media

Read More: David Denby, Book Reviews, Snark, Gawker Media, The New Yorker, New Yorker, Gawker, Maureen Dowd, Vh1, Media News
Alex Remington

As Denby says, snark is like a middle-school rumor: vicious, authorless, and anyone who objects gets slagged as having no sense of humor. It's good that he's publicly objecting.

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Juvenal Delinquencies

Kevin Morris and Glenn Altschuler | Posted 03.28.2009 | Media

Read More: David Denby, Breaking Media News, Marueen-Dowd, The New Yorker, Marueen-Dowd-Column, Snark, Abraham Lincoln, Keith Olbermann, Bill O'Reilly, Media News
Kevin Morris and Glenn Altschuler

The heart of Snark, the part that resonates, is David Denby's thesis, presented in fits and starts, that snark is "mean, it's personal, and it's ruining our conversation."

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Dowd's Snark Shoots Up, Down

Nancy Kruh | Posted 03.06.2009 | Media

Read More: George Bush, The Clintons, David Denby, Obama Berlin, Bill Clinton, Snarkiness, John McCain, Deval Patrick, Writing, Books, George W. Bush, The New York Times, Maureen Dowd, Obama Berlin Speech, Clintons, Journalism, Eliot Spitzer, Barack Obama, Obama Deval Patrick, Snark, Barack Obama Deval Patrick, Dan Quayle, Sarah Palin, John Edwards, New York Times, Iraq, Berlin, Media News
Nancy Kruh

In his book, Snark David Denby describes Maureen Dowd as "essentially sour and without hope," but my evidence, I believe, proves him wrong.

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The Snark Ascending

Steven G. Kellman | Posted 02.12.2009 | Style

Read More: Snark, Satire, David Denby, Books, Tom Wolfe, Snarkiness, Karl Rove, Dale Peck, Lewis Carroll, Pessimism, Political Satire, Critics, Stephen Colbert Satire, Nihilism, Style News
Steven G. Kellman

Snark presupposes a secret society of shared disdain. It preens, reveling in its own cleverness.

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The Pretty Good Hulk and The New Paradigm for Superhero Movies

Erik Lundegaard | Posted 06.25.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: David Denby, The Hulk, Harrison Ford, Sean Connery, Marvel Comics, Iron Man, Superhero Movies, Jack Kirby, The Incredible Hulk, Anthony Lane, Entertainment News
Erik Lundegaard

The Incredible Hulk is forging a new paradigm for superhero movies that recalls the Silver Age of comics, where the characters can't be contained by the arbitary limits of a single movie.

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