COM-260 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Peep Show, Tracking Shot, Kinetoscope
6 Apr 2016
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Mode of production particular system in which films are made. Home movies = largest body of work [in footage], inexpensively produced by individuals who own amateur equipment for filmmaking. Hollywood feature film = most familiar w/ americans, expensively produced, feature length productions. Painting is an essentially concrete art and can only consist in the representation of real and existing things. Gritty detail of real world ordinary people. New communication technologies that emerged out of that end of the 19th cen. helped give birth to mass culture and the era of mass consumption, by transforming time into a product that could be reproduced and sold. Traditional notions of time and space were redefined by the virtually instantaneous transmission of info from 1 geographical location to another. Edison kinetograph, black maria [edison"s movie production studio in west. Movies differed from other forms of entertainment because they didn"t need a live performance.
