The ambitious folk at Inventory Press have admirably sought to resurrect “the film book,” that long-forgotten totem of the mid 1960s to the mid ’70s when movies stimulated thought and discourse. Book publishers responded with assorted printed examinations of films, filmmakers, and film critics — a movement ultimately devastated by the internet. That halcyon development was ended, along with traditional journalism, by what some called “the democratization of criticism.”
The false democratization of opening up criticism (opinionating) to all comers meant that the profession no longer depended on expertise, but Shannon Harvey and Adam Michaels, founders of Inventory Press (IP), pursue a particular kind of expertise in new film books based on the movies Get Out and Us, by Jordan Peele.
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