If I may: you can argue about Der Kommisar ad nauseam, but the mass market of “entertainment,” AKA stuff I enjoy, won’t necessarily give you Toni Morrison’s Beloved. It wouldn’t give you Alice Walker’s The Color Purple. It wouldn’t give you anything by Richard Wright or James Baldwin especially, b/c of assumptions we, the “market” and/or…
If I may: you can argue about Der Kommisar ad nauseam, but the mass market of “entertainment,” AKA stuff I enjoy, won’t necessarily give you Toni Morrison’s Beloved. It wouldn’t give you Alice Walker’s The Color Purple. It wouldn’t give you anything by Richard Wright or James Baldwin especially, b/c of assumptions we, the “market” and/or majority consumers make about the stories those authors are telling. It won’t give you Guernica, ffs, and so much else. It won’t give you stories we as a people need to hear, but need. So if Der Kommisar rains on your parade a bit, suck it up. Der Kommisar serves a purpose. Photography was this cool technology that allowed people to memorialize their dead loved ones* until Jacob Riis turned his lenses on the living children of the tenements of New York and made history, as well as both art AND needed social policy.
An adaptation of THE COLOR PURPLE was made almost 40 years ago. All of those things you mentioned exist and existed in the before times well before the Der Kommisar era. I am not sure what point you’re making.
If I may: you can argue about Der Kommisar ad nauseam, but the mass market of “entertainment,” AKA stuff I enjoy, won’t necessarily give you Toni Morrison’s Beloved. It wouldn’t give you Alice Walker’s The Color Purple. It wouldn’t give you anything by Richard Wright or James Baldwin especially, b/c of assumptions we, the “market” and/or majority consumers make about the stories those authors are telling. It won’t give you Guernica, ffs, and so much else. It won’t give you stories we as a people need to hear, but need. So if Der Kommisar rains on your parade a bit, suck it up. Der Kommisar serves a purpose. Photography was this cool technology that allowed people to memorialize their dead loved ones* until Jacob Riis turned his lenses on the living children of the tenements of New York and made history, as well as both art AND needed social policy.
* Oh so creepy.
An adaptation of THE COLOR PURPLE was made almost 40 years ago. All of those things you mentioned exist and existed in the before times well before the Der Kommisar era. I am not sure what point you’re making.
“It won’t give you stories we as a people DON’T want to hear, but need.” As my son says, you don’t re-read stuff before you post it, do you?”