Film and Mass Media midterm

Crazy Ray

Rene Clair 1925

Playtime

Jacques Tati 1967

Fantasia

Disney 1940

Truman Show

Peter Weir 1998

Ricciotto Canudo

Sixth and Seventh Arts

Walter Benjamin

Mechanical Reproduction 

Define Aura

Uniqueness of a piece, often comes from rarity, based in tradition 

Define Cult Value

based in ritualism, sense of magic, elitism

Define exhibition value

based in exhibition to mass audiences, popularity, and collectivity

Baudry

Cinematic apparatus

Base

material substructure of labour and materials that society is built on - hidden to maintain power

Transcendental subject 

the powerful illusion of sense of self when we identify with the all seeing camera. combo of smooth movement and narrative continuity make us identify with character and forget about real world

Specularization

psychoanalytical way of explaining transcendental subject. Mirror stage, image of body is whole 

Superstructure

Cultural parts of society, like politics and religion

Horkheimer and Adorno 

Mass culture and conformity 

Eisenstein

Dialecticals, promoted Disney’s artistic advancements 

Dialectics

thesis/antithesis/synthesis

Plasmaticness

Ability to dynamically assume any form

Baudrillard

reality tv, post structuralism

hyperreal

real without origin or reality 

Four phases of the image

index, dissimulation, simulation, simulacra (pumpkin, pie, psl, pumpkin spice creamer)