FILM 1400 Study Guide - Final Guide: Thumb, Super 8 Film, Cartesian Coordinate System
17 Apr 2013
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It is a cinema based on the quality that leger celebrated: its ability to show something. The cinema of attractions construts a different relationship with the spectatos: the recurring look at the camera by actors. The cinema of attractions directly solicits spectator attention, inciting visual curiosity, and supplying pleasure through an exciting spectacle a unique event, whether fictional or documentary, that is of interest in itself. The attraction to be displayed may also be of a cinematic nature, such as the early close ups just described or trick films in which a cinematic manipulation (slow motion, reverse motion) provides the films novelty. Accoding to eisenstein, theatre should consist of a montage of such attractions, creating a relation to the spectator entirely different from his absorption. Even when presented in the nickelodeons that were emerging at the end of this period, these short films always appeared in a variety format, trick films with farces and cheap vaudeville acts.
