Hello, ....this type of situation goes on right here in the U.S. I live in a city with two multiplex movie theatres, and no other outlet for current cinema. Due to the promotional practices that you mention below, these theatres show the most obvious mainstream fare. Which meant that they passed on "The Man Who Wasn't There", Mulholland Drive", or currently the latest John Sayles pic, "Sunshine State". Now I'm an hour away from Wash. D.C., and could drive that distance to see the above films, but choose not to for economic reasons (I fit roughly in the lower-middle class demographic, and drive a cheap used car which would probably already be in a junkyard somewhere if I drove an hour every time something I was interested in came to the capital city). Certainly nobody's "forcing" me into this situation, because the alternative to living here is to save $$$ and find a more culturally enriched locale. Which I eventually plan on doing. But at this moment, they're probably showing more interesting American films in Paris than they are in Winchester, VA (title of a Chadbourne song BTW). I remain... Joseph NP: Valentina Ponomareva Ken Hyder Tim Hodgkinson- "The Goose" CD NR: Don Delillo- "The Body Artist" -----Original Message----- From: zorn-list-admin@mailman.xmission.com [mailto:zorn-list-admin@mailman.xmission.com]On Behalf Of Peter Gannushkin Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2002 4:00 AM To: skip Heller Subject: Re: what me worry Hello Skip, Even though I don't think there is a real problem in American culture spreading, I have to disagree with you about forcing. It is quite obvious that American corporations use all their facilities to spread to markets other than American. It doesn't really matter is it KFC "restaurant", Madonna's music or Hollywood movie. The methods and results are basically the same: huge investments in ads, reduced prices in the beginning, prepaid critics' articles (so called hidden advertisement) and then big sales and dominating among domestic products, which often cannot compete with lower quality but bigger money American ones. Wednesday, July 24, 2002, you wrote to me:
2. America is destorying the culture of other nations to sell it's own
sH> at the risk of sounding antagonistic, we're not forcing anyone abroad to buy sH> our culture. you don't have to be an american to be tasteless. madonna sH> sells lotsa records in france because french people want to buy madonna sH> records. it ain't because of some big plot to thwart the success of alain sH> bashung. NP: Don Byron "Bug Music" (CD) -- Best regards, Peter Gannushkin e-mail: shkin@shkin.com URL: http://www.downtownmusic.net/ _______________________________________________ zorn-list mailing list zorn-list@mailman.xmission.com To UNSUBSCRIBE or Change Your Subscription Options, go to the webpage below http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/zorn-list