Comments on: Generation Twilight http://mamacokethinktank.com/2009/11/27/generation-twilight/ "To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield." - Alfred Lord Tennyson Mon, 06 Sep 2010 10:19:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Jack Burton http://mamacokethinktank.com/2009/11/27/generation-twilight/comment-page-1/#comment-8898 Jack Burton Tue, 01 Dec 2009 01:02:08 +0000 http://mamacokethinktank.com/?p=5850#comment-8898 Yeah this is the second article like this I've read. I have a really tough time believing that teenagers will take a story that is so obviously fantasy, analyze and internalize the relationships in the movie as a standard (as opposed to an exception), and somehow carry this particular fiction beyond the screen. I'm all for deep readings of movies, and I'm sure there is some merit to these claims, but the scale of the argument smacks of alarmism. Yeah this is the second article like this I’ve read. I have a really tough time believing that teenagers will take a story that is so obviously fantasy, analyze and internalize the relationships in the movie as a standard (as opposed to an exception), and somehow carry this particular fiction beyond the screen.

I’m all for deep readings of movies, and I’m sure there is some merit to these claims, but the scale of the argument smacks of alarmism.

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