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THE FANTASY OF POWER

on BBC Radio 3

The second of two talks by Paul Mayersberg on the role of genre in the cinema
Mr. Mayersberg argues that the director's, and the screen-writer's. exploitation of the ' fantasy of power '-the audience's need for a sense of domination-can be a spur to creative achievement. He believes that this need found its satisfaction in the early sixties in a new American film oenre, the political movie.

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