ENGB70H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Bruce Conner, Collage Film, Binoculars
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>looked at how non-narrative forms of expression are diff from narrative forms of expression. > considered a collage film b/c director didn"t shoot new images - all images were from old news film (images from documentaries and fiction films) > by calling it a movie = he"s giving the movie a blankness. > starts with stereotypical images of what movies might be - i. e. opportunity to look a female bodies (look at something without having to be in it[voyers]) > juxtaposes semi-nude images to those of binoculars. > how is it the same medium that engages us to engage as voyers also serve the purpose to attempt rep a culture of non-western to western audiences - cinema as tool for colonial gaze of the world. > cinema used to make us chuckle - entertain us, stimulate us. > constant juxtaposition of what cinema can do. > images included - pure & lustly images and how cinema promotes that.
