tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704583061723470804.post8149579566377723650..comments2024-03-10T07:42:17.071-04:00Comments on The Film Doctor: Notable film and media links--July 20, 2009The Film Doctor http://www.blogger.com/profile/03073505923746994988noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704583061723470804.post-75684743184610845342009-07-22T14:43:22.682-04:002009-07-22T14:43:22.682-04:00My pleasure, !vy. I'll switch your address on...My pleasure, !vy. I'll switch your address on my Google Reader.<br /><br />Good points, Movieman. You read the post more closely than I did. I just liked the freewheeling, free-associating way in which Rosenbaum mixed together all of the movies in terms of drug use. He seems more interested in surveying all of the possible evidence instead of finalizing his argument.The Film Doctor https://www.blogger.com/profile/03073505923746994988noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704583061723470804.post-18651074486891099162009-07-22T13:40:24.120-04:002009-07-22T13:40:24.120-04:00Rosenbaum's "thesis" is problematic ...Rosenbaum's "thesis" is problematic to say the least. I'm not sure where to begin. I could go with the essay if it didn't "lead" with the marijuana influence, but rather posited dope as one among many elements which shifted the style and tone of movies in the late sixties. Instead, he seems to cherry-pick examples to support his argument, and often they don't even seem to do that.<br /><br />Take this sentence: "Compare 2010 to 2001, The Cotton Club to Singin’ in the Rain, Dune to Forbidden Planet, Gimme Shelter to Woodstock: in each case the social context becomes narrower while the individual head-trip looms larger."<br /><br />What is he comparing? Pre-pot films to post-pot films? Pot-as-communal-experience films to pot-as-solo-experience films? What about the fact that Gimme Shelter and Woodstock came out the very same year?<br /><br />It's a promising idea, but I'd rather see him revisit and revise the essay than reprint it: too many holes and sloppy arguments. And the picture belie his premise, in that many of the pre-pot ones seem more psychedelic than the post-pot examples.Joel Bockohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11238338958380683893noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704583061723470804.post-86265535623695691362009-07-22T11:07:35.025-04:002009-07-22T11:07:35.025-04:00Film Doctor,
First off, thanks so much for being a...Film Doctor,<br />First off, thanks so much for being a follower of my site! And now, I hope you’ll follow me as I move the site over to WordPress! It’s going to take a little time to get the site up and running again, so for now www.cheerfuld.com is under construction. I ask that if you have viewed the site through google reader to add this new RSS feed to your subscriptions: http://www.cheerfuld.com/?feed=rss2. This will allow you to check back and be alerted when www.cheerfuld.com is fully up and running again! You can still access my original blogspot site by going to http://cheerfuld.blogspot.com/ Please bare with me, I think this move to WordPress is going to be great, and allow for a much more visually interesting site!<br /><br />Thanks again, and stick with me!<br /><br />!vydo you have a flag?https://www.blogger.com/profile/02545239318232059804noreply@blogger.com