EAST 353 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Actuality Film, Fourth Wall, Tom Gunning
20 Apr 2019
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The birth of the real chinese film industry happened around the 1920"s. In the 1920"s - along with the introduction of film watching and film making, the idea of chinese nationalism was also being born. Griffith"s film; chinese blossom was intended to be an "anti-racist" film to counter the previous film he had made which basically praised the kkk called birth of a nation. People start to think of scripts as novels; as what holds the film together. By the 1930"s we get scripts made in different languages by different studios. Tom gunning - cinema of attractions doesn"t die out, but rather emphasis is shifted. The magician 1900 film by edison: the whole point of the film is to use editing tricks to make things disappear. In shadow magic, the films shown to the chinese people were actuality films rather than trick films, this goes to shows that the attraction of film lies in realism.
