As Susan Sontag said: "We lived under continued threat of two equally fearful, but seemingly opposed destinies: unremitting banality and inconceivable terror." On the surface there existed a complacency that disguised a deep fear of violence, but conformity silenced the cries of pain and feelings of fear." (p.223)
..................Stuart Samuels
Film As Window into a Culture
"Film is one of the products, one of the languages,
through which the world communicates itself to
itself. Films embody beliefs, not by a mystic
communion with the national soul, but because
they contain the values, fears, myths, assumptions,
point of view of the culture in which they are
produced."
Stuart Samuels, "The Age of Conspiracy and Conformity"
