CAS PH 159 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Medium Specificity
21 Feb 2016
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Argument for medium specificity associated with bazin: in the history of art, different artistic media excel at some things and fail at others. Under this assumption, animation/choppy montages (for example) would not qualify. Carroll has five necessary and sufficient conditions for a film, and he also shows that these aren"t going to get us an essence of film that supports medium specificity: detached display. Film/photography/plays involve a detached display which is not directly causally linked to the space of the viewer. It is used representationally in all these media (ex. a concert is causally linked/directed, though in period plays, you are casually linked to the actors and props but not the characters of past setting: moving images. Films have to have the ability to move, but whether they do or not is an artistic choice (ex. La jetee is mostly slideshow-esque pictures, but there"s a moment when the woman moves: performance based on tokens generated by templates that are tokens.
