Sunday, September 30, 2007

questions: ...Mechanical Reproduction

woah! This reading is intense. I feel very confused...

Is the author in favor of film or not? Most of the time I think he is, and then other times I can't tell.

I don't understand what he means when he talks about "aura" in part IX
"...the aura that envelops the actor vanishes, and with it the aura of the figure he portrays"

Is he saying that film is an art that poeple don't fully understand? part XV
"The public is an examiner, but an absent-minded one."