Farber on Film: The Complete Film Writings of Manny Farber: A Library of America Special Publication
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Farber on Film: The Complete Film Writings of Manny Farber: A Library of America Special Publication
Our fine arts were developed, their types and uses were established, in times very different from the present, by men whose power of action upon things was insignificant in compari son with ours. But the amazing growth of our techniques, the adaptability and precision they have attained, the ideas and habits they are creating, make it a certainty t... See more
The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction - Walter Benjamin
Lee's racial critique of his fellow director is off the mark. It is almost wholly ad hominem. It focuses on the character of Tarantino's race rather than the character of his work—brilliant work that allows the word nigger to be heard in a rich panoply of contexts and intonations.
Randall Kennedy • Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word
Marker is working at a moment when, in France and elsewhere, there is a growing sense of the deadening effects of a standardized and image-saturated culture.
Jonathan Crary • 24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep
I think there's this weird thing at work now with the way people relate to, specifically, mainstream cinema. When they watch those movies, they like to be on the receiving end . . . and the sound is so loud, and the images are so powerful, they want to be totally passive. But then, a few months later, the salve film is on DVD, and they can watch it
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