ENGL 250 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Telephoto Lens, Slavoj Žižek, Long Shot
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Representation: the entire sphere, all of visual culture and the signs and symbols that it consists of. Philosophers from 60s and 70s working against idea that objective truth/reality that is understood through math and science is actually ultimately symbolic. Form: (how) the shape and structure of the artwork (film as the object of representation) Scholars sometimes refer to this as the problematic representation . Hollywood films are too real and too fake, all at the same time. How can we make sense of this? (4) Lumiere brothers thought film would be exclusively for science and technology and not for fictional storytelling. Film is so realistic that we can be immersed in the story and relate to it, but have the same layer of i know it"s fake, i know it"s an illusion (suspension of disbelief) Film is synthetic: includes visuals and linguistics. On film directors have to have something real to photograph (sikov 2. )
