Thinking about Lincoln
Historical genre . . . or historical "genre" . . . . where is the cultural energy these days?I've been thinking for some time about Steven Spielberg's Lincoln - without coming to any clear conclusions regarding it. Perhaps because there is no clear conclusion to come to regarding it.Well, actually, there was one conclusion I came to - I wish I'd liked the movie more; for me, it amounted to a literate, but fussi…