JLongo writes > I'm not suggesting that COPS doesn't leave any roomfor interpretation. As > Jon Nealon noted way back, one often finds himself/herself yelling at the > television screen. However, by having the camera with the cops the viewer > automatically identifies with them. It is this process of identification > to which I was refering. > JL Again, I must question the word "automatically." The effect mentioned is surely there in, say, *84 Charlie Mopic*, but not in the work of John Cassavetes, at least as I recall it. I think that like the ten-years' struggle behind most "overnight successes," there is a lot of thought and manipulation and a complex confluence of production values, subject matter, editing, plot, etc. that goes into our "automatic" response to any given camera "technique." Eric Eric Rabkin [log in to unmask] Department of English [log in to unmask] University of Michigan office : 313-764-2553 Ann Arbor MI 48109-1045 dept : 313-764-6330 voice msgs: 313-763-3130