Thinkers and Theorists
He wrote, "All that is solid melts into air."
Who is Karl Marx?
These three cinematic genres are a part of the cinema of attractions.
What are the trick film, the gag film, and chase films.
Cinema was seen as part of the magic theatre as practiced by this early filmmaker.
Who is Georges Melies?
Nanook of the North (1922) was shot in what country?
What is Canada?
- It was specifically shot in Northern Quebec.
Anne Friedberg describes two paradigms of vision that are precursors to cinematic spectatorship, the diorama and this, where the viewer is both immersed and mobile.
What is the panorama?
According to Dulac and Gaudreault, optical toys like the Zoetrope are an example of this mode of attraction which is interactive and where the viewer is part of the apparatus.
What is a "player mode of attraction"?
The zoetrope, for its part, demonstrates the tension between two paradigms found within the attractional way in which optical toys function. Here the separation between the material base and the device already indicates, albeit in a very subtle manner, the movement towards a “viewer mode of attraction” as opposed to what we might describe as a “player mode of attraction.”7
MLA (Modern Language Assoc.)
Strauven, Wanda. The Cinema of Attractions Reloaded. Amsterdam University Press, 2006.
APA (American Psychological Assoc.)
Strauven, W. (2006). The Cinema of Attractions Reloaded. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.
He was a French banker and philanthropist known for initiating The Archives of the Planet.
Who is Albert Kahn?
"I'd imagine the whole world was one big machine. Machines never come with any extra parts, you know. They always come with the exact amount they need. So I figured if the entire world was one big machine, I couldn't be an extra part. I had to be here for some reason. And that means you have to be here for some reason too."
What is Hugo (2011)
"Unlike classical narrative cinema, the cinema of attractions encourages "viewers to immerse themselves in the image as a total environment rather than relate to the screen as a window on the world."
Who is Thomas Elsaesser?
Who wrote, "Ride films always present their subjects as a cinema-of-novelty display: they transform the landscape into pure spectacle."
Who is, Lauren Rabinovitz?
“From Hale’s Tours to Star Tours: Virtual Voyages, Travel Ride Films and the Delirium of the Hyper-Real.”
Marlene Deitrich worked with him on seven films aat Paramount Pictures.
Who is Josef von Sternburg?
"Wars are not won by evacuation."
What is Dunkirk (2017)
She states, "Cinema provided a virtual mobility for its spectators, producing the illusion of transport to other places and times but did so within the confines of the frame."
Who is Anne Friedburg in the "Urban mobility and cinematic visuality: the screens of Los Angeles - endless cinema or private telematics."
This architectural mechanism established control through spatial arrangement, established through scopic control over its inhabitants.
What is a panopticon?
"In a world ordered by sexual imbalance, pleasure in looking as been split between active/male and passive/female."
Who is Laura Mulvey?
- Quote from "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema."
"When I needed your faith, you withheld it; and now, when I don't need it, and don't deserve it, you give it to me."
What is Shanghai Express (1932)?
"The World's Fair provides one of the richest instances of the visual and technological culture that emerged in industrialized countries form the middle of the nineteenth century into the twentieth. Cinema moves within this culture less as its culmination than as a parasite, drawing upon both its forms and its themes..."
Who is Tom Gunning?
- "The World As Object Lesson: Cinema Audiences, Visual Culture and the St. Louis World's Fair 1904"
Who is a flaneur?
She writes about early cinema melodramas - and how they depict women in public space, outside of the home - women alternately empowered and yet in distress.
Who is Constance Balides?
“Scenarios of Exposure in the Practice of Everyday Life: Women in the Cinema of Attractions”
"Randomness is very difficult to achieve."
What is Science of Sleep? (2006)