White Trash Girl, Jennifer Reeder
On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 1:46 PM, Fred Camper <f_at_fredcamper.com> wrote:
> Quoting malgosia askanas <ma_at_panix.com>:
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> > But can't there be undependent films that deal with cultural
> > artifacts? For example, can't you imagine an undependent film
> > that's a meditation of some kind on the Sagrada Familia?
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> Of course. And there are lots of avant-garde/experimental/undependent
> films that acknowledge influences from "high culture" such as Gaudi.
> In the sense of "not financially dependent" there could also be
> undependent film meditations on Batman etc. I reacted the way that I
> did not because there aren't good examples of superhero meditations
> but because in my experience a lot of films that purport to examine
> mass culture are actually repeating, not differing from and not
> critiquing, its values.
>
> Fred Camper
> Chicago
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