'The Hum of the Conversing Audience': Ordinary Criticism and Film Culture in American Early Film Theory
| Autor: | Statius Marthe |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2023 |
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| Zdroj: | Open Philosophy, Vol 6, Iss 1, p 408 (2023) |
| Druh dokumentu: | article |
| ISSN: | 2543-8875 2022-0251 |
| DOI: | 10.1515/opphil-2022-0251 |
| Popis: | This article seeks to explore the early stages of American film theory, where cinephilia became a site of aesthetic interest and criticism thanks to the theorization of cinema as a conversational medium. Following Stanley Cavell’s analysis of a distinct form of moviegoing in America, based on the casual conversation about movies, I argue that a reinterpretation of Emerson’s ordinary aesthetics has been at the core of early film theory, especially in Vachel Lindsay’s writings. In order to illustrate the relation between the defence of a new medium and the attempt to define a quintessentially American art form, this article focuses on the concept of “conversation” that Lindsay uses to describe film spectatorship and to provide a new critical apparatus to grasp the specificity of film aesthetics. |
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