SOC 478 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Slow Cinema, Pierre Bourdieu, John Berger
6 Dec 2017
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The pleasure of art and cinema: we can be selfish a bit, in other words, in consuming art a specific attitude toward the world and the world around us. Pleasure: a multi-faceted social and cultural phenomenon that needs to be carefully contextualized. Bourdieu"s louissance: a sense of pleasure that is sensual and related to lust, desire, melancholy or bliss. Examines the relationship between (cid:498) image, narrative and empty spaces(cid:499) Aesthetic value judgments about art (cid:498)really reflect social status rathe than being a response to qualities of the works(cid:499) Hollywood is motivated by principals that accentuate the coherence and clarity of its stories. Is marked by formal traits such as a cause-effect, goal-oriented characters and a standardization of film style that advances narrative progression as efficiently as possible. Slow cinema downplays such devices and instead is organized through two distinctive principles: realism and authorial expressivity. Marked by (cid:498)a certain intensity in the artistic gaze(cid:499)(cid:523) allows for empty space(cid:524)
