The classical Hollywood film presents psychologically defined individuals who struggle to solve a clear cut problem or attain specific goals. In the course of this struggle, the character's enter into conflict with others or with external circumstances .... The principal causal agent is . .. the character, a discriminated individual endowed with a consistent batch of evident traits, qualities, and behaviors.
Bordwell, Narration in Ihe Fiction Film
Everyday life is often little more than a continual succession of disappointments, of subversions, all of which fissure our self unity and social unity as acting subjects. Art does not deny this malaise; it merely hides and denies its roots in historical forces. This is why contemporary culture can well accommodate formally subversive art; as long as such art does not connect its formal subversion to an analysis of social situation, such art becomes little more than a further example of the disturbances that go on as we live through a day.
Dana Polan
Everyday life is often little more than a continual succession of disappointments, of subversions, all of which fissure our self unity and social unity as acting subjects. Art does not deny this malaise; it merely hides and denies its roots in historical forces. This is why contemporary culture can well accommodate formally subversive art; as long as such art does not connect its formal subversion to an analysis of social situation, such art becomes little more than a further example of the disturbances that go on as we live through a day.
Dana Polan
