> Ian Murray forwarded an LA Times article on "the Greening of Hollywood"
> featuring the following quotation from Doug Kellner:
>
> >Douglas Kellner, who holds a chair in philosophy of education at UCLA
> >and is coauthor of "Camera Politica: The Politics and Ideology of
> >Contemporary Hollywood Film," agrees that many of today's films about the
> >environment are militant and anti-corporation.
> >"They are showing the dangers to the environment due to out-of-control
> >corporations and the need for regulation. It's very political, and there
is
> >a Hollywood-left that makes those films," Kellner said. "It sends a
warning
> >to corporations: One day, if you mess up, a movie may be made about it.
It's
> >a positive effect for the environmental movement."
> >At the same time, he said, a movie "simplifies issues to good and bad
> >and seeks a resolution. But in fact the issues in the environment are not
> >just good and bad."
>
> This LA Times writer is either very clever or a total bonehead. In effect
> he is reinterpreting the words of a rather sharp neo-Marxist academic.
Kellner
> obviously meant to advance a critique of hypocritical Hollywood liberal
> moralism by means of a systemic anlaysis of capital accumulation and
> ecological degradation
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Ask him:
http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/faculty/kellner/kellner.html
Ian