On 5/14/06, Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote:
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> Doug Henwood wrote:
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> > There's an amazing scene in the excellent movie (sorry, saying "film"
> > always sounds kinda pretentious) Occupation:
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> I'll have to look up the old issue of Critical Inquiry that had an
> excellent article on this general question. If I remember correctly the
> author thought "movies" was the correct term, but he also pointed out
> that "film" emphasized the material medium -- I don't remember his
> analysis of "cinema" or whether he distinguished between "movies" and
> "motion pictures."
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> I agree "film" sounds pretentious: one senses the writer rather
> self-consciously and even nervously avoiding the term "movies."
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> Carrol
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