let me just drop a few lines in this interesting thread of arguments...
being *third world* doesn'n mean progressive. i can imagine perfectly a
*third world* film making a point that women shouldn't go to school, or
that women should be circumsised... it could be done with or without
*invisible editing*. it can be perfectly inbeded in a non-hollywood,
non-wester, non-capitalist culture. what would you make out of such a film?
is it per se a positive alternative to the ideological, capitalist
hollywood? or does anyone think that an open-ended, jump-cutted film cannot
possibly promote a fascist ideology?
it is not that i'm trying to defend hollywood. it is just that one should
look at what certain film is actually aiming at. general claims that
*invisible editing* is ideologically unsane, or that cinematic apparatus is
a part of the capitalist complot to disseminate its own ideology - are
simply wrong.
all this is an old argument, I know, but seems we are coming back to it
over and over again.
boris vidovic
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