
Episode 136: Adorno on the Culture Industry
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
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The Importance of Coherence in Cinema
The idea itself like objects in comic and horror films is massacred and mutilated. The producer's tendency to fall back perniciously on the pure nonsense emerges most strikingly in the less sophisticated genres. Part of the formula can be to throw an expectation out the window, but not in a smart way, like a dialectical way. We just want a surprise. In crime and adventure films, the spectators would be grudged even the opportunity to witness the resolution. Laughter is mostly page 112. For me it always works. Hopefully it's not before, right? And then talks more about novelty songs here. You really are damned if you do and damned if you're done with
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