Benjamin Geer on Sat, 10 Jul 2004 16:35:54 +0200 (CEST) |
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Re: <nettime> Michael Moore |
Art McGee wrote: > Connecting the Dots: Michael Moore > White Nationalism & the Multiracial Left > By Kenyon Farrow and Kil Ja Kim > http://www.nathanielturner.com/connectingthedots.htm 'Moore’s lack of engagement with such analysis is apparent when he interviews the white militia families to understand their fixation with guns in his Academy Award winning film Bowling for Columbine. Although he’s clearly weirded out, Moore doesn’t question the anti-black undertones the interviewees use when talking about the need to arm themselves against “criminals” or “intruders.”' The authors must have written this without actually having seen _Bowling for Columbine_, which contains a long cartoon sequence arguing that the culture of paranoia in the US is mainly the result of white people's fear of blacks, dating back to the end of slavery. Moreover, in the sequence on the popular TV show Cops, which follows police around as they make dramatic arrests of one young black man after another, Moore challenges the show's producer, asking him why he doesn't make a show on the corporate crime committed by America's mostly white company directors. Ben # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: majordomo@bbs.thing.net and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@bbs.thing.net