But the eighty-four-minute film's more crucial faults are really its elisions and omissions, among them its failure to flesh out its distinctive characters. |
The essay is excellent, and there is a temptation to admire this piece's intelligence and insights to the point at which one overlooks its elisions and oversights. |
Various non-docile members of the community, who Campbell attacks, spend a great amount of time analysing his words and actions for anomalies and wilful elisions. |
His work thus has the tendency to reproduce the elisions of the religious and political polemics of the sixteenth century while seeking to explain them. |
Such forms lead to distortions, exclusions, elisions and the establishment of hegemonies. |
Yet regardless of such formalist elisions, this essay remains enlightening precisely for its heuristic clarity. |