I love Film Studies.

[lord_codfish]

I just wrote a response paper in which I compared "Snakes on a Plane" to porn

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[khyros]

Please provide me with a copy at your earliest convenience.

[lord_codfish]

I doubt you'd be interested in the response paper, besides that one point. It was in general a summation of an article by Tom Gunning where he said that early cinema had essentially two genres: the cinema of attraction, where the "point" of the film was to show something neat (exotic, erotic, magic trick-ish, generally cool) and the plot, if any, was an excuse to go from one neat thing to the next, and the cinema of narrative, where the story itself was the point, and though it may have neat things, they were just eye candy between plot points. His point was that mainstream film historiography, which generally considered the cinema of attractions to be the precursor to the cinema of narrative that evolved out of it, was wrong; instead, they were two separate, well-developed, and contemporary genres, but that narrative cinema "won out" in a Neanderthal vs. Sapiens-style contest. My point was that I agreed with him that one wasn't the precursor of the other or more primitive than the other, but I said that both genres were still alive