Thank you so much for these videos! These are great learning materials for a beginner in film studies. You explain all the concepts so clearly that they are easy to follow, yet touch on the important and complex concepts and theories in film and media studies.
In regards to "it is the model" part, I think it's the receiver's subconscious knowledge of the mechanical objectivity in its capture versus human subjective perception in drawing/painting.
My professor gives us these articles to read and doesn't ever try to explain them in class, so I appreciate this a lot! its also helping me prepare for an essay LOL
After finishing What is Cinema vol.1 I will say Andre Bazin is the most constructive film critique. His insights were incredible and captured the workings an artform that was for most people incomprehensible. Too sad his life was cut short by Leukemia.
Another great video! Thank you once again. A TV show that might exemplify Bazin's ontology concept could be DEVS on Hulu. It was created by Alex Garland. It's a very trippy series. SPOILER ALTER! They build a quantum computer that can show the past on a monitor. It can go back as far as two thousand years. So they reveal a very fuzzy image of Christ. It was a shadowy and noisy image BUT it was an actual photo of Christ, not a representation. It really hits you viscerally . The reality of that moment (seeing actual Christ, even in a murky image) always stuck with me and I feel like speaks to what Bazin is saying.
Ah, I've heard of the show but have never seen it, and yes this episode is a wonderful example! In fact, speaking of images of Jesus, Bazin has an important footnote in this very essay about the Shroud of Turin, which I think perfectly illustrates this indexical quality that we often attribute to his understanding of photographs. It's something that's often brought up by film studies instructors when teaching this essay.
I've ordered his first book! I love Bazin's insights into deep focus and longer uncut takes. It really helps to understand why it's so effective. I always thought that style of shooting was powerful but I never really understood it. It had a such subtle or unconscious quality that was hard to put into words until you explained Bazin's thinking. Well, at least for me. Also per your video series I watched Roma again. I think Bazin would have been all over that. Speaks so well to what he's saying. BTW here's a link to DEVS -- video "into the past." Not sure if this sequence is from the series or it's a fan cut. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-YO0-tc3Al9Y.html&ab_channel=SeoulTing @@filmandmediastudieschannel
The use of the concept Icon is, to me a bit confusing as words were once Icons, especially for example the "Icon" in the Eastern Orhodox Christianity, as pictures but also words could be Icons. The confusion exists, because of the very specific defining of icon, symbol, and icon----all from a visual point of view.
