INI100H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Exhibitionism
12 Feb 2013
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Example of two different phases: tom piper son, musketeers of pigali (dw smith) How and why did cinema emerge at the end of the 19th century: cultural: 19th century modernity"s changes to conceptions, time and space, technological: refer outline, economic. 1907 was a pivot year: charles musser reading: there is reason, we invested. Tom gunning: change starts in 1908: there is reason. Early film style as an example of the cinema of attractions (the first. Understanding early cinema as a failed version of the classical style distorts its unique identity and suggests a teleological approach to the development of film style. Earlier films tend to be quite short: appeal to the desire to look. Even in multi-shot films, editing rarely functions to shape the action; instead, it highlights the novelty of a new view: the cut is somehow an attraction, exercising of cinematic style can be an attraction.
