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Bill Swanson * How Films Feed the Mind 1g Bill Swanson How Films Feed the Mind or ; When I'm Hungry, | Don't Want to Eat Candy an ae th Sn Wo {owing ea, Seanon ep dso nd casio odntas Go, irsofmovis andthe crtera we tf judgethem, though theeehevbeen may Sectbaster since the olginl date this accle warden lm sti ee rectors ‘le seem to stl agree wth Swanton fading 1 Ae Bre-urting exercise, ster "fims" and “movies: What do Yoassecate with each reference aREWhy? tet ways re the two words altke and yet diferent? 2 What types of movies do you attend most cien at the theater or atch athome? Expiin how each film type you mention feces personal interest or need. Febaplence is never limited, and itis never competi is an immense Jets a Kind of huge spidersweb ofthe fines silken thrente oe pee tt the chamber of consciousness, and caching every ci ons pared ts tissue. Is the very atmosphere ofthe mitch eodnboe rts Me einatintive. it takes to tse he fattest hint ofa tears verts the very pulses ofthe al into revelations —Henry James, “The Art of Fiction” 816 Chapter 8 * Division and Classification 1 Novelist Henry James thought it important tobe a person “on whom, nothings lout” He meant the world ha a ott offer we ave the eve aang This applies to everything we perceive, including movies and tp fects they have on uf Sore help vs develop psychologically to be~ Faplete hurtin beings, and other lias are just away of dio- se niente fb ce a, has as mach to do with the fm viewer asthe lm itelt. aac coun James Sp, iba splder-w25 that catches even the snigutest particles. Nothing really escapes ts attention. The bigger the Mreb rove, the more intricate and complex the design, the more that iets caught init, Web-making Is a metaphor for maturity and peycho- fogical developmen. The mind spins out is fine bers when simu. tated to grow, when challenged to thinkin new ways, when asked tc aa new kinds of problems. Any person who has ever seen spidey soe windy fall day, when the strands of web become detached frore fhe stems of plants or the limbs ofa tre, will have a picture for the tray the mind scursies sboct and strives 20 manta its mode of per Tention, As the worl is constantly changing, our minds ae constant

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