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Artistic Ethics?
Mar 10 2008, 2:18 PM EDT | Post edited: Mar 10 2008, 2:18 PM EDT
Question: Should directors (or artists in general) adhere to an ethical imperative that supersedes any economic imperatives? Why or why not? Put differently, should director terry Sanders share any responsibility for creating “the most successful piece of library propaganda ever created” under the guise of a documentary (184)? It seems that Baker would absolve directors, like Sanders, (any artists by extension) from any ethical responsibility for their work. When discussing Slow Fires, for instance, Baker contends that “one mustn’t chide the director of a made-to-order film for doing his best to tell the story that the people who hired him asked him to tell;” yet, Baker also notes “the film’s dismaying claims” (187; 189). Do you find this valuable?    

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