Benjamin's Ring

Dear Culties,

I've resisted the impulse to use this list as a personal research 
consultant, but today I must give in.  Recently a colleague asked me 
if I knew of any scholarship that yoked Walter Benjamin on "aura" and 
the Japanese and American remake of the film *The Ring*  I am not 
aware of any, but I suspect someone here knows of something or 
perhaps a work in progress.

Yours,

Josh

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"Believing . . . that man [sic] is an animal suspended in webs of signifi-
cance he himself has spun, I take culture to be those webs, and the analy-
sis of it to be therefore not an experimental science in search of law but
an interpretive one in search of meaning."
                                                        --Clifford Geertz
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Joshua Gunn, Ph.D.
Dept. of Communication Studies
Louisiana State University
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