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"both high and low culture have produced masterpieces and works of mediocrity. it is our task to find beauty in unexpected places." — jahsonic (june, 2006), art & popular culture wiki

"i urge you: learn to look at ‘bad’ films, they are so often sublime." — adonis kyrou, le surréalisme au cinéma (1953)

"a still is not a film. it lacks the dimensions of time and movement — indispensable components of film art — and represents only a small fraction of a single second of a given motion picture." — amos vogel, film as a subversive art (1974)

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today anyone who is incapable of talking in the prescribed fashion, that is of effortlessly reproducing the formulas, conventions and judgments of mass culture as if they were his own, is threatened in his very existence, suspected of being an idiot or an intellectual.
— theodor w. adorno, the schema of mass culture, collected in the culture industry (1991)