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“just as violence is the last refuge of the inarticulate, so it is also the first resort of the incompetent, the easy out for the man who is capable of expressing himself only in the most primitive and vulgar of dramatic terms. He leaves us with only the obscenity of violence per se - and the pornographer thereof will always be with us, in film as in any other medium. And so will his audience.”

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Book:The private eye, the cowboy, and the very naked girl: movies from Cleo to Clyde
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“Film criticism became the means whereby a stream of young intellectuals could go straight from the campus film society into the professionals' screening room without managing to get a glimpse of the real world in between.”

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Book:The private eye, the cowboy, and the very naked girl: movies from Cleo to Clyde
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