in media res


sense perception and media technologies? get real!
February 19, 2008, 8:32 pm
Filed under: film, media everyday media, sam | Tags: ,

I agree with Mr Lynch on this one, but I really don’t think it’s a case of ‘getting real’. That implies that there is a correct way to watch a film, a correct location and method of screening. Throughout cinema’s short history it has already seen a range of different ways of experiencing films, from the mutoscope to the multiplex, and the technological changes have affected both how films are made and, thereafter, our internalised sensory perception.

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