![]() ![]() Usually they were shot somewhere just north of San Diego, with the African “natives” appearing in a remarkable variety of shades. Consequently several movies were made purporting to depict native life in darkest Africa. "Another favourite approach was to present a fake documentary film in which it was acceptable to show bare breasts - as long as they weren’t white. Aesthetics are not an objective body of laws suspended above us like Plato's supreme " Ideas" they are rooted in the fundamental mechanics of how to control the population and maintain the status quo." - Incredibly Strange Films (1985) by V. "The concepts of " good taste" are intricately woven into society's control process and class structure. ![]() Since the '60s, film has ceased being a popular creative medium." - Incredibly Strange Films (1985) by V. This force-power through persuasion-reaches deep into the backbrain, rendering more brutal, physical control tactics obsolete. The power to literally create desire, fashion, consumer trends, opinions, aspirations and even one's very identity is expressed through film and video. "Our sophisticated, "democratic" Western civilization regulates the population's access to information, as well as its innermost attitudes, through media-particularly film and video. ![]()
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