Tuesday, February 24, 2015

Cinema of Attraction response

           The main purpose of this article was to show what's happened in the past 3 decades to film, which also happen a century ago on a micro scale. What I'm speaking of is the decaying of  art in film narratives. Between the 50's to the 70's you have a mass of narratives created with the soul purpose to tell a story. Movies filmed by Hitchcock are prime example, they told a story not through just dialogue but through the world. As time progressed you get less and less of this. Films gradually transition into wowing people instead of making them think. In the article this happen on a more micro level from 1907-1913. Films went from being narrative and non-narrative art to wowing the viewer through imagery not immersion. The question the article stands, is why? Why has film become this, not only quickly but indefinitely. My answer upfront would be progression, we as species progress. It'll always happen.

1 comment:

  1. Anthony, I would clarify that films began as attractions and became narratives, not the other way around, and I think what Gunning is saying is that cinema will always be connected to the notion of attraction by its very nature.

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