FILM 3808 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Kuselan, Merriam-Webster, Columbia University Press
16 Oct 2018
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Reading: nicholas rombes, interfaces, cinema in the digital age, revised edition (london and new york: wallflower press, 2017), 52-56. Told arvid that a modern film is to an old one as a present-day motor car is to one built. The impression it makes is just as ridiculous and clumsy and the way filmmaking has improved is comparable to the sort of technical improvement we see in cars . Film theorist christian metz on cinema vs. film. Cinema is a 1a: motion picture -- usually used attributively. B: the art or technique of making motion pictures. Cinema is a 1a: theatre where films are shown for public entertainment (ex: north. Movie theater, a theatre where people pay to watch films (ex: the town no longer has a cinema ) Cinematographe demonstrated to paying audiences in 1985. The first-motion picture apparatus, according to the encyclopedia britannica. A motion picture camera that served as a film projector and printer.
