THTRFLM 1T03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Theatricality

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Theatre & Film Studies
• Course: THTRFLM 1T03
• Professor: Peter Cockett

Document Summary

The idea of privilege is an important part of our world. There are lots of different levels of privilege. Being aware of your own assumptions of what is considered normal. Theater and cinema construct fictional worlds that shape the way we understand our own. The stories change how we behave and think about our world. The power of story telling is very great. Realism is a form of art where the artist tries to mimic our own world. Theater and cinema are artistic forms that have a natural tendency to realism because we use objects of everyday existence into film. Pai(cid:374)ters (cid:272)a(cid:374)"t do this, they use pai(cid:374)t; (cid:449)riters (cid:272)a(cid:374)"t do this, they use (cid:449)ords. In theater and film we are given the content, there are no filling in the blank space. He mobilized the cultural discourses about the privileges of those in the west versus the picture on the board of people waiting to drink water.