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Michelle

Sep 16, 04 - 8:52 PM

more on the significance of pop culture...

I just added this within the site but I wanted to post it here too because I liked it so much:

I read this quote in the Sept/Oct '04 issue of Film Comment and had to add it here. Gavin Smith wrote, "...this issue embodies what former Film Comment editor Richard T. Jameson liked to call film's 'eternal present.' What did he mean? That a film made in 1937 is as immediate and relevant and alive as a film coming out next month. Or, put another way, that film history lives on and shapes what we watch and what filmmakers create long after its prime movers have exited the set."

Isn't that a lovely way to look at pop culture as a whole? Pop culture's "eternal present" is all of pop culture influencing what's next and how what once was is still as relevant as what is and what will be. And if you read on, you'll see that's how I like to go through life. Life is what was, what is and what will be and it all means something to you and me now even if it has happened to someone else before and will happen to someone else in the future!

That really became clear to me recently when I was re-reading Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. She wrote this book almost 200 years ago and human nature hasn't changed one iota in all that time. So basically, 200 years from now, people will be watching Felicity saying, I totally can relate to this love triangle between Ben, Felicity and Noel.

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