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...Worlds.” The only reason to save the films would be for an anthropology paper entitled, “Poop and Culture: Ethnographically Approximating the Root Causes of Loose Stool,” which has already been written several times by Roger Ebert anyway...
...Both white and black Americans exhibited a bias toward fearing strangers of another race,” Jeffrey Ebert, a psychology graduate student at Harvard and co-author of the study, wrote in an e-mail. “For whites, this meant they developed a stronger, more persistent learned fear response to the face of a black stranger; for blacks, this meant more robust learned fear toward a white stranger...
...shock. This time researchers found that the fear response—activation of the sweat glands—to “the face from the participant’s own race diminished, while the response to the face from the other race persisted,” Ebert said...
Because subjects with a history of interracial dating saw almost no persistent fear reaction to the faces of other races, the study’s authors—Ebert, Cabot Professor of Social Ethics Mahzarin R. Banaji, New York University (NYU) Professor of Psychology and Neural Science Elizabeth A. Phelps, and NYU graduate student Andreas Olsson—concluded that fear learning is influenced by one’s social group, and thus may be socially conditioned...
...Film Comment, associate editor Melinda Ward and I put together a special issue on Cinema Sex (January-February 1973). It included Donald Richie's report on Japanese eroductions, Ray Durgnat on Jess Franco, Stephen Farber on sexual censorship in California, my long interview with Metzger and Ebert's definitive study of Meyer (which is quoted in the first pages of The Other Hollywood. My favorite essay, a real startler, was Brendan Gill's on porno films. Brendan, a New Yorker staff writer for a half-century, and author of the magazine's unofficial history, Here at the New Yorker...