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
 
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