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From: "Lavolta Press" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Historical Costume" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, April 24, 2006 6:56 PM
Subject: Re: [h-cost] Historical Films
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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.
And some of us still see it as entertainment--I found The Pickwick Papers to
be one of the funniest books I ever read, and Sam Weller is quite possibly
my favorite book character of all time. There are parts of that book that
made me positively roar with laughter, and others that made me cry.
Sometimes, the entertainment of previous days survives as entertainment as
well as art, just because it's GOOD.
To drag this kicking and screaming back on topic (at lest somewhat) I ahve
always wanted to make a Sam Weller doll. Now I have to delve back into the
book and read up on his clothing. Oh, the pain! (insert obligatory dramatic
pose)
Dianne
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