CIN301Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Aesthetic Realism, Celluloid, Relate
Document Summary
Historiography: how what happened is told; the practice of writing history. Definitions and uses of cinema beyond entertainment. Shift from classical theory (what is cinema?) to contemporary theory (relationship of film text to spectators; explicit questions of methodology) Bringing different aspects of cinema into critical focus. Rendering intelligible what is not self evident. A medium with which/onto which motion pictures are (or were) recorded. Ex. the photosensitive emulsion with a flexible celluloid base. Cinema: everything external to or excluded by film (gilbert cohens at) The networks of social, aesthetic, technological, economic, and political relations and practices involved in the production, distribution, exhibition, and reception of films. Cinema is not an object so much as a social organization or set of social practices related to (and inscribed by and into) film. Photographic image"s realism born of the direct existential bond between the world and its representation. Significance is immanent to photographic image and its relationship to reality.
