CIN301Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Gillo Pontecorvo, Julia Kristeva, Rectilinear Propagation
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I want to fight against the dictatorship of the lens. What makes a painter so free and what constrains us so much is that his art passes only through his hand and his eye, while we must pass through something, the camera, which makes us prisoners of reality. He is a terrible enemy. gillo pontecorvo (1972) Histories of the cinema lack both history and the cinema, since for their authors both are already there norbert massa, cin -forum. Against empiricist, cause-and-effect historical methods that take the past as a simple given or fact. Differential historical temporalities: against the hegelian sense of. Historical time as a universal, homogeneous, continuous, linear unfolding. Multiple temporalities can co-exist and are not necessarily subsumed by a larger temporal unity. Materialist history: basic historical fact is production and reproduction of material necessities of life. In practice- multiple, contextual, non-teleological, open to contingency. Convergence of multiple technologies, discourses, the visible and invisible.
