Lecture with Chris / Film as Cinema, As Art, As Cultural Text.

My notes on the lecture.

Film; the Art form of the 20c.

Walter Benjamin.
The work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction.

• Aura.
• Authenticity.
• Mechanical reproduction.
• Reproducibility.
• Consumability.

- Photography - widespread - multiple.
Possibility of disregarding Aura and Authenticity.

• The grammar of the film
• How the lenses see 

Alienation process: Consider what the meaning of the artwork may be.

Bruce Nuaman? Good Boy. Bad Boy.

• Bas Jon Ader 
• Sam Taylor Wood / Still life / A little death
• Francis Alys / Railings - Life cycles, rhythm. 
• Christian Marclav / The Clock 
• Bhimj 

Film - Who's medium?

Marnie - Alfred Hitchcock.

• Subjective - Submission
• The Hunter

The Gaze - Laura Mulvrey
Visual pleasure and narrative cinema psychoanalytic.

1. Subjectivity.
2. Sexuality.
3. The Unconscious. 
4. Gender.
5. Power.

Reading the context.

• Levels.
• Diologe as well as visuals.

Symbols
Meanings
Signing
Association

Double Intensity
Classic way of story telling.