Treasures of the earth and screen: Todd Haynes's film Velvet Goldmine

The affinity between Walter Benjamin and contemporary film scholars be pendents on something deeper than agreement with the theoretical points he makes. Many of his claims, like the link between the evolution of film and the disclosure of socialism, stand on questionable earth Nonetheless, he uses the experience of film to combine in a vital way with the experience of the reader. More than any other way of representation, the phenomenon of film in all its aspects mediates a fresh encounter with our own faculty of perceptions Where Benjamin finds the consistency of harden experience changing at its foundation he responds with something