Monthly Archives for October 2013
Film theory
In this weeks reading I found it really interesting that when talking about cinema, films and photographs. The reading started with Egyptian mummification the text stated: “the religion of ancient Egypt, aimed against death, saw survival as depending on the continued existence of the corporeal body. Thus, by providing a defence against the passage of […] Continue reading
Film theory
In this weeks reading I found it really interesting that when talking about cinema, films and photographs. The reading started with Egyptian mummification the text stated: “the religion of ancient Egypt, aimed against death, saw survival as depending on the continued existence of the corporeal body. Thus, by providing a defence against the passage of […]
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Bazin and realism in cinema
André Bazin described what he called “the myth of total cinema.” In Bazin’s vision, the history of film could be …
Lights, Camera, Action
Starting off with a flashback to the good ole days of VCR was a thrill especially for me (and my parents)….who still own one and use it. I wonder what Friedberg would say now with our advancements into Blu-ray’s, digital downloading, and online str… Continue reading
Lights, Camera, Action
Starting off with a flashback to the good ole days of VCR was a thrill especially for me (and my parents)….who still own one and use it. I wonder what Friedberg would say now with our advancements into Blu-ray’s, digital downloading, and online str… Continue reading
Auteur Theory, Directors and Storytelling
I’ve always been fascinated by the world of film and the film industry, and I think this is in largely in part to the ways in which it overlaps with literature and storytelling. The one thing I believe more than … Continue reading Continue reading
Auteur Theory, Directors and Storytelling
I’ve always been fascinated by the world of film and the film industry, and I think this is in largely in part to the ways in which it overlaps with literature and storytelling. The one thing I believe more than … Continue reading Continue reading
Photography is a point of view
“No one believes any longer in the ontological identity of the model and the image?” … well, Mister Bazin, I was wondering if the Egyptian ever believed in it? from the ancient Greece , the illusory status of images as always been known, and theorized by Plato. The Egyptians might have very well known the […] Continue reading
Photography & Cinema
As Bazin mentions in his essay ‘From what is cinema’ that cinema was a complete representation of reality for people like Muybridge, Lumiere, Niepce etc. and hence they tried to develop moving images of people to demonstrate the reality in … Continue reading → Continue reading
Some thoughts about Film
Literature as the written form has to be read, the painting, sculpture, architecture, photography have their limits like the absence of auditory perception or the absence in the visual itself of dimentions such as time and movement. Cinema, as the seventh form of ats, providing us with an uncomparable perceptual feast of senses, shows great […] Continue reading
