This is Not a Film

• the death of cinema
• documentary impulse -> reality vs. construction, film within film, social realism
• censorship as a death of cinema
• boring? (I actually enjoyed it)
• director is highly film-literate

The paradigm shift (Cheshire reading)

• sound not ‘revolutionary’
• distinction between art and entertainment
• i.e. German Expressionism -> market themselves against international cinema, national cinema is unified therefore art & entertainment unified (high + low art distinction)
• French New Wave: fork in the road
• -Creates an alternative
• -Looking back at national cinemas
• -Hollywood = accessible/coherent
• -French New Wave/art film = challenges the viewer, hermeneutic

Cinephilia

• the future
• industry, special FX animation
• how has it changed?
• urgency