CIN201Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Thaumatrope, Celluloid, Technological Determinism
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When did cinema begin? - too many different answers. Assumes there"s a well-defined starting point, rather than it being developed. How and why did cinema come about at the time that it did? . What traditions of art and popular entertainment did cinema perpetuate. Avoid calling early film innocent , underdeveloped , or in their infancy - more how cinema could have been. Andr bazi - the origins of cinema reside in a shared dream of the recreation of reality. Inventors and artists wanted cinema long before cinema actually came into being. Charles musser - cinema fits into a history of screen practice, just one stage in an ongoing history of screen entertainments. Cinema is placed in the context of several centuries of screened images. The magic lantern - earliest version can be traced back to the writing of athanasius kircher (1646)
