FILM 1900 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Dime (United States Coin), Woodville Latham, Phantoscope
Document Summary
Strong connection between the city, the cinema, and modernity. Both the city and the cinema were outgrowths/products of modernity, both in terms of technology, and the techniques and methods of representation, and choice of subject matter. Important components of change, manifested in shifts from rural to urban areas, which provided the audiences required for new developing art forms and mass media, including the cinema. Also manifested in new emphases upon industry, tech, and progress. Rapid pace of urban life, and the constant development of movement, provided the ideal space for revolution. Represented the apogee of the industrial movement. Testified to the invention and advancement of numerous new tech and disciplines connected to sci and medicine. Corresponding emphasis on remaking individual observation (eg artist pr writer), into something that could be calculated and regulated. The act of looking and the capacity to see became more scientific.
