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BRIAN TAVES <[log in to unmask]>
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Thu, 18 Nov 1993 10:24:10 GMT
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          I appreciate the insightful remarks of  James Schamus and Harriet
          Margolis in response to  my noting postmodern traces in 1930s and
          40s  low budget filmmaking. James is  quite right  to question my
          implied valorization of "self-consciousness". What  I should have
          more carefully indicated was the belief that some of the "B" (for
          lack  of  a  better  word) filmmakers  were  indeed intentionally
          either artistically or for other reasons stretching the bounds of
          convention in narrative and-or visual technique. I noted this  in
          the  perhaps mistaken anticipation that  the assumption would  be
          that such filmmakers would be regarded as merely after the bottom
          line, getting  the  picture ground through  on  time  and  moving
          automatically to the next project with little if  any creativity.
          Harriet and James have also effectively noted the multiplicity of
          methodologies in approaching such popular culture.
          Brian Taves
          Motion Picture Division, Library of Congress
                                 Tavesmail.loc.gov
          P.S. These opinions may or may not reflect those of  the Library.

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