Introduction to Film 10th Quiz

According to Arnheim in what ways is film not like reality

Film is not continuous in time and space. Films are able to interrupt and cut through both time and space, a feature distinct from reality. Films lack all of the senses present to a person besides sight and sound. There is an absence of color that distorts images and simply is not reflective of real life. The film is a flat 2D projection of a 3 dimensional space, totally counter to ordinary perception

What does Arnheim think films do best

They transform reality. Films are flat, framed, odorless, and have no "real" people, but they are able to deliver fantasy. Films are about looking, playing off of desires or horrors

Unreality of the film picture

Arnheim's description of why films do not reflect reality. There is an absence of color, delimitation of the screen size and shapes do not appear on screen in their true proportions. but are instead distorted in perspective

Plastic arts

Art forms that involve physical manipulation of the art/medium in 2 or 3 dimensions-sculptures or pottery

Originality (in photography)

The essential objective character of photography, an originating object and its reproduction is only intervened by a nonliving agent; an image of the world is formed without the intervention of man. Photography therefore gains credibility that no other art form has

Resemblance

Determines the species of photographic image, also determines the character of its aesthetic. Aesthetic properties of photography help to lay bare the realities; this way photographs reveal the world for what is truly is

What makes photography special to Bazin

Photography is transcendent of time and independent of human nature. Photography and a photo will always contain the same time as when it was taken--nothing will change. Photography perfected the resemblance and freed the other arts to do abstract things. At the same time Cinema is a language made possible by photography