lauramohapiSep 11, 20213 minWalter benjamin: The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction (1936): XIThe shooting of a film, especially of a sound film, affords a spectacle unimaginable anywhere at any time before this. It presents a...
lauramohapiSep 8, 20215 minWalter Benjamin: The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction (1936): XThe feeling of strangeness that overcomes the actor before the camera, as Pirandello describes it, is basically of the same kind as the...
lauramohapiAug 23, 20214 minWalter Benjamin: The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction (1936):IXFor the film, what matters primarily is that the actor represents himself to the public before the camera, rather than representing...
lauramohapiAug 18, 20212 minWalter Benjamin: The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction (1936): VIIIThe artistic performance of a stage actor is definitely presented to the public by the actor in person; that of the screen actor,...