| Reference Type |
Filmnews
journal
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| Title |
Letters - The F.J. Holden Lives On |
| Author(s) | Meg Stewart |
| Volume |
7 |
| Issue |
6 |
| Page Number |
2 |
| Comments |
A scathing response to a scathing response... |
| Synopsis |
Here, Meg Stewart responds to a letter which was responding to her review of 'The F.J Holden'
Yes, things have become quite confusing!
To Helen Hooper, the despondent respondent, Meg Stewart chides "..I concluded that you found 'The F.J. Holden unacceptable as fuction and so decided to categorise it as a documentary film and then, as such, felt it didn't show what you regarded as the real nature of the Western suburbs or "the working class"(2)
and then...
"The lives of the people in 'The F.J. Holden may be uneventful, but sometimes life is. Nobody called working class people 'some kind of lower breed of simple minded buffoons' except you"(2)
and finally...
"...Your blindness to any of the effort and achievements of 'The F.J. Holden'..is the sort of negativism that thwarts creative achievment here - if it could be taking seriously"(2) |
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