CIN301Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Mirror Stage, Image Resolution, Psychoanalysis
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The use of a large blank screen that is wider than it is high. The positioning of the projector behind the spectators. The darkening of the room for the sake of better image resolution, clarity, and vibrancy. The immobilization of the spectator who sits and watches. The reality" mimed by the cinema is thus first of all that of a self. (45) The spectator identifies less with what is represented, the spectacle itself, than with what stages the spectacle, makes it seen, obliging him to see what it sees . Cinema constitutes the subject" by the illusory delimitation of a central location whether this be that of a god or of any other substitute. It is an apparatus destined to obtain a precise ideological effect, necessary to the dominant ideology: creating a phantasmatization of the subject, it collaborates with a marked efficacy in the maintenance of idealism.
