FILM 1400 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Fictional Film, Sexualization, Eye Contact
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Representation cultural analysis spectatorship reading irony and satire. Synthesis of still images into phenomenon of the moving image. Documentary: following an argument or observational perspective or categorization. Film form might build on how perception, concentration, and cognition works. Gestalt - see wholes rather than parts. Richard gollin: film viewing (spectatorship) as imaginative play with identity. Vicarious experience ( experienced in the imagination through the feelings or actions of another person ) Film fantasies provide us with marvellous surrogate experiences . Degrees of intimacy of identification: recognition, understanding, sympathy (feeling for a character, empathy (feeling what a character feels, hallucination: becoming a character as spectator loses themselves in film (immersion?) How we relate to characters can depend on our knowledge of character traits. Most important movement in cinema & media studies in 1970s and 1980s. Arose out of feminist movement in reaction to deplorable status of women. Glass ceiling keeping women from position of power.
