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Hopefully, every once in a while, there's some ART!
The line between entertainment and art is extremely flexible, unless
there's so much art you can't possibly view it as entertainment.
With novels, it's like Charles Dickens, and many other authors, are one
generation's entertainment. Then later, just because they're old, they
get canonized in English Lit classes as ART. Don't get me wrong, I'm
perfectly happy to read the stuff and discuss the symbolism in it to my
and everyone else's heart's content. But it still seems a little
ironic. The same with music--opera used to be popular entertainment.
I'm not sure exactly how this works with films, as they are a newer art
form and I never took any film studies classes. I do tend to quit
viewing a film that doesn't even try to tell you what's going on. Like
"The Aviator"--the one about Howard Hughes--after about half an hour I
figured if there was going to be a plot it would have been apparent by
then. So I turned off the DVD and later got rid of it.
Fran
Lavolta Press
http://www.lavoltapress.com
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