Bad Movies with Matthew Strohl
Overthink
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The Role of Norms in Good Movies
Matt Zuckerman: How can we think about good, bad movies in terms of conventional norms or potentially other norms that are more substantive? He says Aristotle has claims on what makes a good plot and Teodor Adorno talks about artworks having a special wholeness unto themselves.Zuckerman: In violating these norms, bad movies might be bad in the deeper sense of not being aesthetically valuable.
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