“The screen exposes the ordinary viewer to harsh realities, but it screens out the harshness of those realities. It has certain moral weightlessness: it grants sensation without demanding responsibility, and it involves us in a spectacle without engaging us in the complexity of its reality. This clearly satisfies certain needs or desires. Through its capacity to project frightening and threatening experiences, we can say that the screen provides a space in which to master anxiety. It allows us to rehearse our fantasies of omnipotence to overcome this anxiety.”
Robins, Kevin. “The Haunted Screen.” From Bender, Gretchen. Culture on the Brink: Ideologies of Technology (Discussions in Contemporary Culture, No 9). New Press, 1998. 313.
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The joy of filmmaking. Escapism, illustrated through cinema, here, is nothing more than another form of control.
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