hello all,
I was wondering how many of you had managed to read the editorial article in 'Film Int. by Jeffrey Crouse on Bazin? I was appalled
by its tone and its completely uncritical hatchet job on what Crouse percieves to be the enemies of reason, what he calls academic
fordism, attacking the likes of laura MUlvey et al. only to offer a hagiography of his hero.
Has it really come to this, when the work of Marxists, leftists of any stripe, Freudians and lacanians can be vilified to no
critical purpose as far as I can see.
I wonder if Mr. Crouse has read Mulvey's piece on 'Voyage In Italy' or Ted McGowans insightful book on Lynch and what about Mary
Doane's thought provoking study 'The Emergence Of Cinematic Time.' Surely Bazin would have welcomed the developments that these
type of interventions in the study of film have wrought. Are we to really dismiss Kaja Silverman's reading of 'The Best Years Of
Our Lives'.
LIke anyone who works in the area, I believe Bazin's work to be indespensible to both the study of film and to the general study
of human work. Crouse does Bazin's work and memory no favours by penning such a venomous piece.
Full marks to Film Int. for a special issue on the topic but I wonder how many of you were enraged by this piece?
peace
alan
A. Fair
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