CS251 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Eadweard Muybridge, Sergei Eisenstein, Roland Barthes
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In theories of visual culture influenced by marxist theory, the term reproduction is used to describe the ways that cultural practices and their forms of expression reproduce the ideologies and interests of the ruling class. In this view, the reproduction of ideology through media also reproduced the political order and its episteme. Photography is the visual tech that most helped to usher in the age of modernity to the extent that it epitomizes that era. Using foucault"s concept of discourse, we might say that photography emerged along with discourses of science, the penal system, medicine, the media, and other institutions of everyday life that made visual reproducibility one of the imperatives of modernity. Photographic images of movement such as those by muybridge set the stage for the development of cinema as did other forms of visual display that were proto-cinema.
