December 7, 2007

Ethics Meets Freddy Krueger

By JEFFREY R. YOUNG

The head of Arizona State University's film-production program, F. Miguel Valenti, doesn't believe in showing movie clips in his classes, arguing that every scene should be viewed in its full context. So to make a point about why he thinks Friday the 13th has destroyed the horror genre, he recently showed the whole bloody mess of a movie to students in a survey course on film ethics.

"It made no bones about what it was," said Mr. Valenti in introducing the film, as he paced back and

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