HUMA 3985 Lecture 5: GER 3792 week 5 reading
12 May 2020
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Went against the grand tradition of classical idealism, and sought to portray life as it really was . Film as cinema makes absence presence; it puts reality up onto the screen. The focus was on ordinary life; the lives of the socially deprived and their circumstances. Physical realism is connected to psychological realism via the narrative structures. Ideological realism functions to disguise the illusion of realism. Aesthetically motivates realism / realist aesthetic attempts to use the camera in a non-manipulative fashion and considers the purpose of realism to be its ability to convey a reading of reality, or several readings even. Ideological realism: hides its mythical and naturalizing function, and does not question itself. The whole purpose is to stitch the spectator into the illusion, keeping reality safe. Nothing in the camera work (lighting, colour, sound, or editing) draws attention to the illusionist nature of the reality effect.
