Monthly Archives for October 2013
“The cinema is an invention without a future.” ― Louis Lumière
From the readings this week I realised the importance of the change in what determines audience approval. At the very start of cinema, spectators were amazed and intrigued purely by the apparatus that permitted images to move across a screen, whereas nowadays we expect films to project an image of reality so real that we … Continue reading Continue reading
“The cinema is an invention without a future.” ― Louis Lumière
From the readings this week I realised the importance of the change in what determines audience approval. At the very start of cinema, spectators were amazed and intrigued purely by the apparatus that permitted images to move across a screen, whereas nowadays we expect films to project an image of reality so real that we … Continue reading Continue reading
Gender Issues
Foucault gives three major emplicit codes that governed sextual practices in eighteenth and nineteenth centrury –canonical law, the Christian pastoral, and civil law. And the marriage relation was the most intense focus of constraints. Whether it is for the political or economical purpose to confine the norms of , under such social background, homosexuality is […] Continue reading
Color TV, VCR and memory
Is inevitable not being nostalgic reading Anne Friedberg’s article “The End of Cinema: Multimedia and Technological Change”. After she mentions the change that VCR, cable television and television remote control represented for technology and culture, I just want to add … Continue reading Continue reading
Color TV, VCR and memory
Is inevitable not being nostalgic reading Anne Friedberg’s article “The End of Cinema: Multimedia and Technological Change”. After she mentions the change that VCR, cable television and television remote control represented for technology and culture, I just want to add … Continue reading Continue reading
“Mirror, mirror upon the wall, Who am I today?” You, my queen, are a victim of scopophilia today
Maybe it is because the semester is quickly coming to an end. Maybe it is because we spent the last two weeks talking about gender studies and feminism. I could not help it but to roll my eyes when I started to read Mulvey. After one page, I was already frustrated. I guess I am […]
Continue reading
“La teta asustada”
In the essay “Colonialism, Racism, and Representation: an Introduction”, by Robert Stam and Louise Spence, specifically in the section “Some Definitions”, the authors say: “In response to such distortions [the one that the colonialism representation make], the Third World has … Continue reading → Continue reading
The Perversity of Cinema
When I read Metz’ From the imaginary signifier, I couldn’t avoid the temptation to consider myself a fetishist in regards to. I have been always fascinating by the magic of these “shadows” in comparison of theatre, literature or painting. The … Continue reading Continue reading
The Perversity of Cinema
When I read Metz’ From the imaginary signifier, I couldn’t avoid the temptation to consider myself a fetishist in regards to. I have been always fascinating by the magic of these “shadows” in comparison of theatre, literature or painting. The … Continue reading Continue reading
In addition to telling the time, it’s a geiger counter, a powerful magnet, and a saw that can slice through rope.
Halberstam argues that masculinity itself cannot be fully understood unless female masculinity is taken into account. I find this idea intriguing as we have grown up in a society that has found it difficult to acknowledge gender uncertainty and has been very ready to either ignore it, or acknowledge it in using pejorative terms such … Continue reading Continue reading
