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immediacy as an attribute of cinema as art
er, not just singular movies, but whole genres emitted aesthetic and politi-
cal connotations which were not congruent with the spirit of the system, in
which they were created. The Hollywood melodrama, for example, which
was especially founded on suggesting emotions, as well as signalling and
announcing simple but accurate denotations of sexual and social injustices,
was made possible by the immediacy of moving images. Immediacy after
all is what it is for somebody, that is to say, for a perceiving subject.
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er, not just singular movies, but whole genres emitted aesthetic and politi-
cal connotations which were not congruent with the spirit of the system, in
which they were created. The Hollywood melodrama, for example, which
was especially founded on suggesting emotions, as well as signalling and
announcing simple but accurate denotations of sexual and social injustices,
was made possible by the immediacy of moving images. Immediacy after
all is what it is for somebody, that is to say, for a perceiving subject.
185
