POL SCI 119 Lecture 19: Lec 10.1
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Feels that art is important; the experience of movies is not matched anywhere else. Classes lacked language to talk about movies > to understand must question what films are. Movies are to be enjoyed by turning off > instead be unsure about what;s on the screen. What films are and what they"re doing > knowledge of self. Taking film as art > what is film not like to say what film is. Pervasive idea of modern art > serious vs. popular. Method: the way people talk about art and casual expressions about movies. Develop a set of words about movies i can trust > no vocabulary for it, usually use metaphors or words for traditional art. What is film: what does it mean to say you"re watching a film vs. a collection of slides. A picture is what is pictured, but it is not the actual figure.
