Re: Adorno on TV

[Travis Ennis <tlennis_iu@xxxxxxxxx>]

I too would like to hear you comments on the movie The
Matrix.  I have some ideas of my own and maybe we
could discuss our similarities and differences.  Send
me something off the list.

Thanks in advance

Travis Ennis

--- Ralph Dumain <rdumain@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> At 12:17 PM 6/2/99 +0000, L Spencer wrote:
> >But re-reading the pieces included in that
> Routledge volume this
> >weekend I was struck by the fact that in key
> passages the mass
> >media are treated as an expression and an integral
> part of
> >society. Its
> >stupidities are treated as OUR stupidities. The
> media are treated >as part
> of the way in which we make ourselves more stupid
> (as
> >opposed to
> >informing ourselves and developing our culture). If
> this is just
> >as
> >bleak a description of the mass media it does at
> least not treat
> >audiences as wholly passive.
>
> This passage moves me; it hits close to home.  If
> you came to Washington
> and accompanied me to a movie theater filled with a
> ghetto audience, you
> would witness a level of willful stupidity that
> would make your jaw drop.
> You should read my review of my experience of ALIEN
> RESURRECTION.  You
> know, the intelligent black people I know will not
> patronize any theater
> where a ghetto audience predominates, that's how bad
> it is.  It's not class
> snobbery, it's preservation of one's sanity.  Now
> when it comes to some
> first class barbeque, it's a whole other matter.
> Therein Hegel would find
> an aesthetic embodiment of the speculative truth of
> the age.
>
> I've given up on all but a few adults, but I've
> become a master at
> directing film criticism to children, at the highest
> possible intellectual
> level.  I did an absolutely brilliant job recently
> in explaining the latent
> ideology of THE MATRIX to a 12-year old girl, and
> was completely
> understood, a result almost unobtainable with
> adults.
>
>
>
>
>
>

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