Just a side comment on the public acclaim topic: let's
remember that we are talking about a "popular" genre, which
has only recently acquired a bit of academic respectability.
It took alot of people buying pulp fiction to create the
possibility for the better stuff. It takes a river to float a
few boats.
[The later it gets the more oracular I wax.]
Is the act of buying a form of public acclaim? In market
terms, it's demand, and it has power.
And just to muddy this river some more, is acclaim sometimes
due as much to a film embodiment as to the innate worth of
the fiction? Contrary, are some "just- as-great" titles
underappreciated because they're not viddied?
[To Viddy: how people see in a video culture...fr. Clockwork
Orange]
Bill Hagen
billha@ionet.net
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