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It cites controversy about the collection but doesn't really go into what the controversy is. Why is it controversial? Or is it just not controversial?
by copsarebastards 11y ago
It cites controversy about the collection but doesn't really go into what the controversy is. Why is it controversial? Or is it just not controversial?
- VLM 11y agoThe article covers it although not in detail. Having lived thru it, the article quote "Conservative concern over the decay of family values" is pretty accurate. Some of the content being an intentional parody of family values talking points doesn't win friends, although it can be very funny. This extends to the modern day, nothing some like more than using what they describe as academic degeneracy to gain points.
- A_COMPUTER 11y agoThere's no controversy, it's just an affection of the writer. They mention further down that there may be film purists who insist that movies are only correctly made and preserved in celluloid, but that luckily there's a "new generation of scholarship" interested in the history of home video. Apparently Leonard Maltin was part of this "new generation" when he wrote the Complete Guide to Home Video in 1981 :-P I find it extremely hard to believe that there's anybody academically involved in the history of cinema that would see this collection as without value and recommend putting it into the dumpster.