Wexler’s Version of Violence
Louise Sweeney
Christian Science Monitor, 22 September 1969
Medium Cool is the first feature film to focus on the impact of television on society. That focus is deep; it deals with the violence that corrodes the American scene today and that TV radiates each night on its news programs. Medium Cool is like a cinéma-vérité version of the Walker Commisssion Report on what happened at the Democratic convention last year, a version which has its own private hero and heroine and tragedy.
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