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One of the interesting parts about this article is the discussion of the early film industry. It was a small-scale and decentralized place and so the possibility for almost anyone to make a film was a reality. The promise of the early film industry was that film would be a way of sending out information and act as a revolutionizing force because it leveled the playing field (see Walter Benjamin's "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction" (1936) for a contemporary view on film). By the 1940s this idea is taken over by commercial ventures and we end up with large-scale and centralized film production that we have today. While films very much shape and reflect our culture I think it is interesting to point out this shift in the film industry itself. What does that say about American culture? --[[User:Shauser|Shauser]] 20:17, 25 August 2010 (MDT) | One of the interesting parts about this article is the discussion of the early film industry. It was a small-scale and decentralized place and so the possibility for almost anyone to make a film was a reality. The promise of the early film industry was that film would be a way of sending out information and act as a revolutionizing force because it leveled the playing field (see Walter Benjamin's "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction" (1936) for a contemporary view on film). By the 1940s this idea is taken over by commercial ventures and we end up with large-scale and centralized film production that we have today. While films very much shape and reflect our culture I think it is interesting to point out this shift in the film industry itself. What does that say about American culture? --[[User:Shauser|Shauser]] 20:17, 25 August 2010 (MDT) | ||
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| + | I found the most interesting quote of this article to be this: "whether a particular cinematic discourse is true or false is less important than its ability to create a dominant sense of reality" (10). In other words, reality is far less important than what people believe to be the truth. I think this is very true of everyday life, especially when taken in conjunction with Justine's discussion above about movies as a source of information on subjects to which some people are otherwise not exposed. -Cilla | ||
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