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Ulf Dalquist <[log in to unmask]>
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Film and TV Studies Discussion List <[log in to unmask]>
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Sat, 27 Jul 1996 09:44:17 +0200
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David L Ezell <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>From my point of view, that seems to prove we are being constantly
>desensitized by what we see. I sincerely hope I never find the sort of
>unnecessary violence I see in todays cinema as either "cute" or benign.
>
I might have been unclear on this issue. I did not mean that the Screen-L'e=
rs of=20
tomorrow would find the films cute, but that they would find our reactions =
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concern with them such. And, I might add, "unnecessary" has always been a=20
buzzword when it comes to critique of violent films, from Griffith and on.
 
Ulf
 
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