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Patrick Crogan argued (in a sweet article for the special Horror Edition of Film and Philosophy) that the digital revolution leads us to lose the thingness of the thing (in Heidegger's sense), and that CGI is just not as convincing (and moving) as good analog special effects. I think his point has been proven ad nauseum in the eight years since its publication. The suspension of disbelief is getting harder and harder to secure. "For beauty is the beginning of terror we are still able to bear, and why we love it so is because it so serenely disdains to destroy us" Rilke's First Duino Elegy Daniel Shaw Professor of Philosophy and Film Lock Haven University Managing Editor, Film and Philosophy website: www.lhup.edu/dshaw * * Film-Philosophy salon After hitting 'reply' please always delete the text of the message you are replying to. To leave, send the message: leave film-philosophy to: [log in to unmask] Or visit: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/film-philosophy.html For help email: [log in to unmask], not the salon. * Film-Philosophy online: http://www.film-philosophy.com Contact: [log in to unmask] **