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Edinburgh Film Festival 1956

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... The Edinburgh Conference brought out all the nerviness of this situation, which quickly polarised the participants, including speakers who came from abroad. David Will, who wrote a lengthy report on the event for the journal Framework, [29] detected a strong opposition between pluralist positions on the one hand, and populist tendencies on the other, which he roundly criticised. He also reported a split between those he called Afro-American populists, and Asian speakers who appealed strongly to Western ideas. ...
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