FIST 331 Study Guide - Comprehensive Final Exam Guide - Ontology, Sergei Eisenstein, Film Theory
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It"s objectivity subjectivity, reality, - takes a step back from just the content and the big questions from the things we think we know. A film is difficult to explain because it is easy to understand. - christian metz. We believe what we know and think that we really know it, but we rather don"t. Why do we need film theory? metaphysics of cinema - film theory gives us this. The first principles, big questions. the what is. We like to talk about what we see and what it means. How we generally talk in the way we know. We take representation for granted and we are comfortable with what we see, we analyze what is given. Theory is how cinema trains us to to see, how the cinematic model is created to be seen. The questions that we dont ask so that we can easily delve ourselves into the cinema that we watch.
