Is It Just an Imposition?

"Culture is a paradoxical commodity. It's so completely subject to the law of exchange that is no longer exchanged," Adorno wrote in 1947. "What can I be used about it? What can I do with it?" he asks, asking what questions are foreclosed for him by its violent imposition on difference. The film-maker responds: "Every work of Hollywood cinema isn't just an imposition, it's also a response"