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The Journal of aesthetic education, 1997-07, Vol.31 (2), p.37-44
Ort / Verlag
Champaign, Ill: University of Illinois Press
Erscheinungsjahr
1997
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Alma/SFX Local Collection
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For when this confusion is not dissolved, as Francis observes, it is a short step from the first entanglement of two notions of illusion to the point where "the illusion of reality" in turn becomes hopelessly entangled with the much-debated question of just what sort of status spectators grant to the sequences of filmed images they see. [...]we wind up squarely at the heart of the debate about the ideology of realism which came to preoccupy film theory during the heady days of Screen in the mid- to late seventies. Francis's suggestion is this. Because spectators "take films as narratives," we rely on our experience of what is narratable as a guide to understanding the sequences of actions that unfold before us. Film narratives contribute to sustaining a false sense of the spectator's own psychological unity, as these remarks by Baudry make plain: "The spectator identifies less with what is represented, the spectacle itself, than with what stages the spectacle, makes it seen, obliging him to see what it sees." [...]the "cinematic apparatus" mimics the transcendental subject, and the cinema spectator misrecognizes herself as just such a unified, centered, psychologically coherent subject.l4 In contrast to this view, Francis emphasizes the abilities of cinema spectators to follow gappy and atypical narratives, to cope with greater or lesser amounts of narrative detail, to sort salient from less salient information, to deal with a variety of ways of organizing any given sequence of events, and to resolve for themselves interpretations where the text is underdetermined or even undetermined. Drawn from the table of contents of Robert Lapsley and Michael Westlake, Film Theory: An Introduction (Manchester: Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1988). [...]more-or-less following the developments of narrative theories in general during the twentieth century.