Abstract
In recent years I have been troubled by the return of a ploddingly sociological approach to cinema in academic as well as media criticism. By plodding, I do not mean a sociology which goes out to explore the dense social contexts of film consumption today; in cinema as distinct from television studies, we’ve had very little of that. I mean a strictly armchair way of seeing or not-seeing films which first views them as evidence of some social or political mess, then treats them as guilty stand-ins for that mess-and wages a war of attitude on other viewers.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Keyframes: Popular Cinema and Cultural Studies |
| Editors | Matthew TINKCOM, Amy VILLAREJO |
| Publisher | Taylor and Francis Ltd. |
| Pages | 171-186 |
| Number of pages | 16 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9781134631582 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9780415202817 |
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| Publication status | Published - 2003 |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© 2001 Matthew Tinkcom and Amy Villarejo.