Page 132-133, Clement Greenberg on kitsch, especially "Snow White", Nazis, and Soviets.
Page 133, "monopoly turns culture into industry"
quoting Adorno/Horkheimer "Under monopoly all mass culture is identical ... The people at the top are no longer so interested in concealing monopoly: as its violence becomes more open, so its power grows. Movies and radio need no longer pretend to be art ... They call themselves industries..."
Page 136, Disney and Riefenstahl ... "not development of technology but is progression in technique".
Page 137, "Manipulated emotion is the currency in Hollywood and at the Reichsfilmkammer alike".
Page 138, Adorno on sports.
Page 139, "the battle over beauty in the 1930s was a battle between the surreal and the ideal"
Page 140, "The cult of the perfect body is a cult of death".
Page 143, "once political dissatisfaction develops, the common man feels able to criticize culture, because he resents it."
page 145, "At the core of revived classicism is the cult of the body.
"Riefenstahl refuses the avant-garde term 'montage' in favour of the seemingly organic term 'forming' (Formung). Film was formed as a total work of art for a totalitarian society."
Page 153, Trying to find Aryan origin for Walt Disney.
German animation to look at: Kurt Stordel.
page 155, "Der Arme Hansi" by Leberecht
Page 133, "monopoly turns culture into industry"
quoting Adorno/Horkheimer "Under monopoly all mass culture is identical ... The people at the top are no longer so interested in concealing monopoly: as its violence becomes more open, so its power grows. Movies and radio need no longer pretend to be art ... They call themselves industries..."
Page 136, Disney and Riefenstahl ... "not development of technology but is progression in technique".
Page 137, "Manipulated emotion is the currency in Hollywood and at the Reichsfilmkammer alike".
Page 138, Adorno on sports.
Page 139, "the battle over beauty in the 1930s was a battle between the surreal and the ideal"
Page 140, "The cult of the perfect body is a cult of death".
Page 143, "once political dissatisfaction develops, the common man feels able to criticize culture, because he resents it."
page 145, "At the core of revived classicism is the cult of the body.
"Riefenstahl refuses the avant-garde term 'montage' in favour of the seemingly organic term 'forming' (Formung). Film was formed as a total work of art for a totalitarian society."
Page 153, Trying to find Aryan origin for Walt Disney.
German animation to look at: Kurt Stordel.
page 155, "Der Arme Hansi" by Leberecht
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