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> The image of punishment is often provided in the film itself, as its poetic justice. Such self-punishment is evil in itself; but worse is that usually it is projected far and wide as vindictive hatred of scapegoats. And alternatively, it seeks for allies in mass suicide, as if to say, “We are not worthy to live.”
#PaulGoodman on #PacifistFilms #AntiWarMedia #WorthyToLive #DeserveToDie ??? -
Maps! Information Design. Reminds me of Paul Goodman's advice for Making #PacifistFilms
> Factual and analytic handling of images of war can neutralize their pornographic effect.^1
https://forensic-architecture.org/investigation/a-cartography-of-genocide#PaulGoodman
^1 https://www.marxists.org/subject/anarchism/paul-goodman/1961/designing-pacifist-films.html -
> a film must at least not do.. harm by predisposing its audience toward war.. images of senseless violence, horror, and wast.. employed in.. commercially successful #antiwar films.. have a titillating effect and remain in the soul as.. further incitements.. images of horror.. detach themselves from the.. intellectual and ethical framework in which they are.. presented.. they attach themselves to quite different #subliminal ideas
https://www.marxists.org/subject/anarchism/paul-goodman/1961/designing-pacifist-films.html
#PacifistFilms #PaulGoodman