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Article: VENI, VIDI, VIDEO: THE HOLLYWOOD EMPIRE AND THE VCR
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- Metro : Media & Education Magazine
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- January 1, 2003
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FREDERICK WASSER VENI, VIDI, VIDEO: THE HOLLYWOOD EMPIRE AND THE VCR University of Texas Press, Austin, Texas 2001.
REVIEWED BY DANA POLAN
In The Jargon of Authenticity, the Frankfurt School theorist Theodor Adorno lamented the way in which in the moment of modernity certain seemingly ordinary and commonsensical words underwent a distortion and became tokens of degraded possibility. Such words appeared to speak of a richness of life offerings but in fact all they could really refer to was the poverty of experience that capitalism actually delivered whiie pretending to provide something more.
In our increasingly consumerist age-one in which, moreover, so much of what we call 'cultural ...