TDGE 10 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Allardyce Nicoll, Emil Jannings, Mass Society
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Evaluating movie is freedom from impurities of theater film is separate from film. History of drama separation from theatrical models. Frontality: unmoving camera reproducing the situation of spectator of a play fixed in his seat. Theatrical acting: gestures stylized, exaggerated now the actor could be seen close up. Theatrical furnishings: unnecessary distancing of audience"s emotions audience not immerse in reality. Camera can be used to project selective (edited) version. Othello starring emil jannings is first filmed. Some were captured by camera but was not staged. Film a document of reality is unrelated to purpose of theater. Use of motion picture camera was to make unstaged reality. Later to create illusion construction of fantasy. Cinema is committed to reality physical reality which is redeemed. Film shots in real life settings are better than those in a studio. Synthetic look in films cinema"s true future resided in artifice.
