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Susan Denker <[log in to unmask]>
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Film and TV Studies Discussion List <[log in to unmask]>
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Thu, 1 Dec 1994 01:01:11 -0500
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On Wed, 30 Nov 1994 [log in to unmask] wrote:
 
> ----------------------------Original message----------------------------
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> when I speak of madness, I am not referring to a raving maniac, or
> any other culturally influenced definition of madness...
> The madness I refer to is the
> madness that Victor himself refers to several times... e.g. in the
> ship captain's cabin when he asks if the captain shares his madness,
> what I think could surely be viewed as a "mad" need for discovery
> and innovation.
 
  I feel we all too easily buy into the mad=creative sales pitch whether
it is expressed in its old form (Van Gogh's creativity attributed to his
*mad* condition) or in its new form (watered down Foucault -- madness and
creativity conflated as *transgression*.)
 
Susan Denker
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