VL--IV. Movies as a betrayal

[kelber at mindspring.com]

This is an issue we'll have to revisit when we get to the sequence about Frenesi's work in the film collective.  Presumably she's trying to right the wrongs of Hollywood until things go horribly awry.  A false consciousness trying to create a real (unalienated) product?

LK

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>From: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>

>I will still argue that TRP means that movies, the fabricated "dream factories" that pervade the real world, which are the 'real world' of Vineland America, start with a falseness--a betrayal--of reality...........from the betrayals of the workers to the betrayals by melodrama and either-or, good guy--bad guy stories.
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>Frenesi's riff on life "based on" a binary distinction, good guy, bad guy....her embrace of the world of betraying.....and the fact that Hollywood was divorced from its own 'producers"-----what an ingenious Marxist-like metaphor from OBA!......workers alienated from the products of their work and a LITERAL 'false consciousness" created!
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