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Creation time:
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Produced in the Mid 1970s
was the dominant theory of the time |
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Creaters:
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Louis Althusser, Christian Metz, Jaques
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Created from:
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derived in part from Marxist theory, semiotics, and psychoanalysis and ideology critique
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What the theory is about
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It maintains that cinema is by nature ideological because its mechanics of representation are ideological.
the spectator screen relationship how where u are can affect how u preceive the film i.e. theatre vs at home |
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Its mechanics of representation include:
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The camera and editing
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Apparatus theory also argues that cinema:
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maintains the dominant ideology of the culture within the viewer. Ideology is not imposed on cinema, but is part of its nature.
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Apparatus theory follows:
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an institutional model of spectatorship.
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Define Semiotics
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study of signs and symbols, the study of how meaning is constructed and understood
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Define Phsycoalalysis
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family of psychological theories and methods based on the work of Sigmund Freud. Connections amough the uncocius components of a persons mental processes.
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define Ideology Critique
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Feminist critique:
the idea that just something 'being' natural does not necessarily mean it 'ought' to be the case. |
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Where is the meeting point between Althusser and Lacan?
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it exists in the notion of the Mirror Phase
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