MPF 327 Chapter Notes -Film Stock, Lost Film, Film Theory
22 Nov 2012
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A lot of what was said in this chapter had to do with the explanation of what film history is and what historians do. Many vague questions were addressed in this introductory chapter along with the different types of historical views. The empiricist philosophical view of history is interesting to look at for example. Empiricist history is a simplistic view that focuses on method and primary sources. The past however is much more complicated to determine. Conventionalists however, are criticized to have logical extreme views since they believe empiricists are like architects of reality; they construct the world they seek to explain. To balance out the 2 philosophical views, there is also the realist approach to film history to be taken into consideration. To realists, how and what questions must be answered before a why question can be realized.
