Why do so many film-goers delight in horror films, in violence on the screen, in thrillers where the quiet man next door turns out to be a human monster? And what does it have to do with ourselves?
Eli Siegel said in a lecture he gave at New York City's Steinway Hall: "To see how in a person there can be the desire to pour tea and be nice and also a desire to snarl, some notion of the opposites in a human being needs to be had."
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Mind, Violence, & Movies, the latest issue of The Right of Aesthetic Realism to Be Known.
