In rereading Pierre Bourdieu, I just came across this wonderful quote, which in my view gets at a central methodological problem in film studies today:
It is no accident that, when certain intellectuals denounce the contempt which the cultivated classes or other intellectuals evince for “mass culture,” they are led to credit the working classes with a relation to this type of cultural goods which is non other than their own or — which amounts to the same thing — its opposite. (Craft of Sociology 73)
Of course, if you’re looking for a culprit of my atrocious, clause-laden writing style, you’ve found him.
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