In a message dated 09/13/2001 1:43:48 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
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> One last point relating to film and philosophy - if
> our analyses and theories (of the symbolics and
> mediation of images in society etc) mean anything in
> relation to film, then surely they can and *must*
> apply to current media coverage also - not out of
> disrespect to victims of terrorism, but out of a need
> to be human(e), to be intelligent and subtle in our
> decoding of socio-politico-psychological realities, to
> try in micro-efforts not to let emotion and 'good vs
> evil' rhetoric blind us to what should matter - the
> creation of a world where freedom means more than
> western capitalist democracy and blood-lust-fuelled
> revenge (nurtured by Hollywood over the years) have to offer.
>
>
You make an interesting point, and I'd like to talk about it, but I'm going
to have to get back to you after I finish bandaging a waiting line of 50
badly injured firemen.
Martha P. Nochimson
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