'co-opted'? how far was modernism opposed to capitalism in the first place. advertising and movies are two capitalist enterprises that were often 'modernist'.
i'll choose what's important in a film, if u don't mind herr haneke!
it wouldn't particularly change anything if we found out who sent the tapes. it wouldn't make georges' response any less equivocal, or undermine the film's theme. i don't really like the idea that the tapes are 'emanations' of...
diagree that "it doesn't matter" who sent the tapes; there's nothing wrong with the audience wanting the mystery resolved! the final shot would still be v. ambiguous.
isn't this a bit of a 'get out of jail free card'.
"because Pudovkin shows life under Stalin as so comfortable, and Riefenstahl shows Germans to be immeasurably more powerful than Jews, they inadvertently suggest an opposite point of view."
O RLY?
i haven't been a film student either, but you'll find the pernicious influence of brecht all over '70s 'screen' (of which 'sirk on sirk' editor jon halliday was an editor -- with laura mulvey he helped 'make' sirk in the UK) and thus in most film studs text books. it was articulated with the...
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