Media, Information and Technoculture 3214F/G Lecture Notes - Body Politic, Mass Society, Sound Film
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A disposable, popular graphic medium which uses a combination of images and text to convey a story. Initially appeared in newspapers more than 100 years ago, though they have older predecessors (william hogarth). Comics came into being with the rise of mass society. The medium evolved from daily newspaper strips to stand alone, comic books. Film reels are created out of individual frames (often photographs) which, when projected in rapid succession give the spectator the illusion of motion. Experiments in the late 19th century led to the ride of the motion picture industry. Film was initially silent (often distributed with scores to be played at the theatre) but talking picture -- or talkies -- were introduced in the 1920"s. Key point: cinema creates an imagined space where a mass body exists that can perhaps exist no where else. No reality could stand the intensity of the mass shown in cinema (valerii podoroga)