Speaking loosely, include such films as Taxi Driver, Rocky, Saturday Night Fever, and the Leer numer in inis calcgory. those films. most concerned working class politics are Blue Collar and FIST. In all these alone control the action. Women are not even 'sidekicks' to men, let alone equal participants.
Women are supportive organise in the South. depicted County, between Norma sheriff. contrast possibilities inherent in it.
liberation and presenting these questions.
all negative.
way these could Hollywood's developments, films, men exist WIVeS, absence is the extreme violence which confronts working people when they This violence, so graphically in Harlan reduced to a scuffle Rae and the local to the blatant manipulation of the Hays Production Code, a very subtle mampulation 1s going on in Norma Rae and the other films 1 have mentioned. By giving us hack our own reality in an altered watered-down form the Hollywood cinema also hides that reality, and the In other words, it helps to defuse the potential dynamite of women s Mass struggle by selective and partial aspects-of life-situations which pose Une would not want to say that the effect of these films is by any means Bv portraying strong women and working people fighting for their rights, greater legitimacy is gained for a change in sex and class conditions in society as a whole. But we must always keep in mind that the issues are presented reaction to on large part We should never approach these films without being on the look-out for those missing dimensions of social reality which are most exciting and inspiring, lest we forget that these do lives and accept the built-in pessimism and conservatism of the mainstream capitalist cinema. SOME five weeks ago our trades council launched a report, 'Five Days attemoted account of a delegation we had to Belfast and Derry in May. Copies were sent to all the national press and unsurprisingly provoked no response. Copies were also sent to yourselves, Star. More surprisingly more disappointingly — none of these apology Last week's article on the Iranian economy by Fred Halliday was taken from the Irish Times.
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