On 2/27/96, Gene Stavis wrote:
 
>Although she doesn't mention it, Sontag has identified one of the culprits in
>another of her famous essays: camp. There is such reverence for films you can
>feel comfortably superior to in today's students, precisely because film is
>so powerful and seductive that many of today's students are terrified by it
>and choose as their models the tame and harmless or the trivial and vacuous.
 
I'm fascinated by Gene's statement that "many of today's students are
terrified" by film (as opposed to individual films) and hope that he will
consider elaborating on that in this forum.  This poissibility had never
really occurred to me before. Is there an obvious way to distinguish
between this as the impulse behind the choice of "the tame and harmless or
the trivial and vacuous" as models and mere ignorance or bad/undeveloped
taste?
 
--Richard J. Leskosky
 
Richard J. Leskosky                     office phone: (217) 244-2704
Assistant Director                      FAX: (217) 244-2223
Unit for Cinema Studies                 University of Illinois
 
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