Hello all,I applaud Dan Shaw's intervention here. I was rather perplexed by the discussion so far. I come from the first aspect of
this forum's name and it has always seemed to me that the hyphen in its title was supposed to represent a certain form of coming
together.
I have recently been discussing with one of my seminars Ray's 'They Live By Night' and the discussion has focused on a number of
issues raised by the film's form and its implications. Why is there a prologue and what can this prologue mean for instance? Does
it imply an imagined pre-lapsarian moment of 'pure love' or does it form an ironic commentary on what is to follow? A lot of the
discussion concentrated on the idea of innocence and how constructions of the fall are dealt with in western art. Clearly, to a
degree we were discussing aesthetics, but also religion and, if you like, ethics. But mostly what we seem to do in seminars is
film-philosophy. i wonder if Ranciere or Zizek would puzzle over such distinctions?
Peace
alan
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