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Mark Lause wrote: > > I'm sure there are people who looked at "Birth of a Nation" as one of the > many silent-era cowboy movies. Or "Reds" as a love story. Just think a > minute at how differently people perceive a news broadcast. Indeed. I once had a student inf 18th-c lit who thought "A Modest Proposal" was evidence that Irish peasantry practiced cannibalism. In a political context this means that a given text or movie takes on political significance only within a specific context, which is only partly created by the viewer's own history. If you bring bourgeois assumptions to a movie, you will see it supporting those assumptions. If it clearly does not, then such viewers will dismiss it as propaganda. No movie has an essential meaning that 'works' on the reader regardless of context. Or see it as a good movie which has the wrong attitude. It all comes back to active political practice. News, movies, even events do not carry their own meaning. Carrol ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
