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To: Father Terrence who wrote (45727)7/15/1999 3:11:00 PM
From: jbe  Respond to of 108807
 
Leni Riefenstahl's "Olympiad 1936" is not "expository prose", but a two-part film, if I remember correctly.

The problem you raise (good form/bad idea) is much tougher when you are talking about imaginative prose, poetry, theater, film, etc. That, of course, is what the whole Ezra Pound brouhaha was over, to take only one example.



To: Father Terrence who wrote (45727)7/15/1999 3:56:00 PM
From: The Philosopher  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 108807
 
True. Magnificent technical achievement, reprehensible motive. But I still get goosebumps when (maybe every five years or so) I pull out my copy of Triumph of the Will and watch it.


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