HIST 4090Y Lecture 5: Seminar 5 (Oct. 14)
Document Summary
Silent film from last week: using new techniques, relationship between different groups, sophisticated use of cinema. Going to the movies: early audience : frequency of movies depends on the class you are from, depending on location as to what class you would get. Heroes and heroines of their own entertainment : unique period that has never been repeated broad range of political movies. 68: trying to preserve these imagines while trying to get money from these rich industrialists, not purely documentary, going for a preferred look. Martha a. sandweiss: transformation of private moments into public, new interruptions with different users. Zamir: arguing that the photos are bicultural, power dynamic white photographer, sitting for money.