CIN105Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Ethnographic Film, Psychoanalysis, Camp De Thiaroye
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Myth of oedipus and the relationship boys have with their parents/ their development. Cinema and psychoanalysis are contemporaries of each other - 1895: when cinema and psychoanalysis was born & freud"s introduction to the unconscious. Rooted in the same historical moment and tied to each other and are able to explain each other. 1895: half of the world"s land mass was under control of european powers that ensured global dominance by extracting wealth and denying political control to those they conquered. European powers were among the first to explore the aesthetics possibilities of the film medium and to establish an infrastructure for the production of film. History of film became bound up with the history of colonialism. Travel logs early form of cinema. The lumi re brothers credited with inventing it, first to exhibit moving pictures they created publicly for a paying audience, and developed a larger catalogue of movies called actualit s: things happening now.
