ENG 108 Lecture Notes - Panopticon
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Was against using proper dialog within the film because he was trying to increase the speed of the meaning and that the visual was the power of cinema. Machine the machine with control labour and that controls the body. Capitalism the crowds the sheep and the black sheep. Look into the number of people who"s works have been banned as well as people. The machine consumes the body and the body consumes food the whole concept of capitalism and how the machine eats the people symbolically turning people into machines and blurring the lines between the two. This is during the time of the first great depression. Brings up the idea of the camera in the workplace before it existed as a panopticon.
