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...Richard Schickel...
What this fitful leakage across the culture gap meant was set forth by Richard Schickel in The Disney Version (1968), a book that is still the best dissection of Disney. "It is the business of art to expand consciousness, while it is the business of mass communication to reduce it. At best this swiftly consummated reduction is to a series of archetypes; at worst it is to a series of simplistic stereotypes." Disney's use of fine-art images usually came down to stereotype, for it worried him not to have things clear-cut. He understood business...
...Richard Schickel...
...sheepish. In the end, one is reduced to admiring the scenery while puzzling over the disparity between the film's slick physical production and smoothed-down dramatic style, and the historical moment it purports to examine: a time that was down and dirty and - well, crude. ∎Richard Schickel...
...less abstract than their settings, juiceless and lifeless. Going to a Tati movie for laughs is about as practical as going to an exhibition of Mondrian paintings with the same goal in mind, though the painter may actually excel the actor in terms of motion and emotion. · Richard Schickel...