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... movie enables him to do this again — to put aside the emotional mysteries of the film and see it coldly , using intellection as a defense . In short , the puzzling movies take us , as any great work of art does , along the whole ...
... movie enables him to do this again — to put aside the emotional mysteries of the film and see it coldly , using intellection as a defense . In short , the puzzling movies take us , as any great work of art does , along the whole ...
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... movie works . To bring all these ways together , the puzzling movie turns its puzzling quality into pleasure in two large areas . First , it presents itself as an aesthetic mystery : What does it " mean " ? As in a joke , the oblique ...
... movie works . To bring all these ways together , the puzzling movie turns its puzzling quality into pleasure in two large areas . First , it presents itself as an aesthetic mystery : What does it " mean " ? As in a joke , the oblique ...
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... movies than by the stage . The movie audience is moreover insured against_reaction or reproof from those whom they watch because the actors are incapable of seeing them . The onlooker becomes invisible . The actors , in short , can't ...
... movies than by the stage . The movie audience is moreover insured against_reaction or reproof from those whom they watch because the actors are incapable of seeing them . The onlooker becomes invisible . The actors , in short , can't ...
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A Dictionary of Fantasy | 31 |
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