Gene Youngblood

performance artist Valie Export has argued that the aesthetic of newly emerging expanded cinema in the 1960s was ‘aimed at making people aware of refinements and shifts of sensibility, the structures and conditions of visual and emotional communication, so as to render our amputated sense of perception capable of perception again’ . It became feasible to decontextualise, become aware and immerse oneself into various components of cinematic experience. Therefore, initially, expanded cinema was perceived highly in relation to human sensory and observational expansion. However, another highly influential figure in the coining and popularising of the term, Gene Youngblood, who in 1970 wrote a book under the same title, took these views even further. While Vanderbeek spoke of expanded cinema’s capacity to breach into unconscious levels, Youngblood went as far as to argue that expanded cinema was equivalent to expanded consciousness and extended communicative capacities as well as stood for ‘a process of becoming, man’s ongoing historical drive to manifest his consciousness outside of his mind, in front of his eyes’ . Similarly, Nam June Paik, during his first video exhibit in 1963, hung a bloody head of an ox, in his own words, to ‘get the audience in a oneness of consciousness, so they could perceive more’ . Thus, expanded cinema no longer enabled comprehensive human perception, but became an extension of human himself, functioning ‘as nothing less than the nervous system of…

particular, but in general, the different meanings will be selected to portray different aspects of cinema, both new and old. Cinema is a medium of communication because it sends a message. A film has a reason for being made. For example, Crash; a movie by Paul Haggis — aims to show the role of race and class in the average society. The movie sends a message by showing that it is essential to wipe out racism in our communities because it fosters unnecessary hatred for people who may be helpful…

In Uglies, at age of sixteen, Tally Youngblood is struggling to speak up when she “couldn’t explain that she [has] come here as a spy, or David will never trust her again” (Westerfield 275). Tally is glad that nobody knows the truth temporarily because everyone is happy when the truth is not been told. But how many pressures would Tally feel if she decides to hide the truth for her entire life? She should speak up about the what had truly happened, but how could it be easy if it would possibly…

“When she awoke, the world was on Fire.” (Westerfield 164) She saw fields on fire, and all that can come to her head was to run. Fear was alive in her body and she had a different mindset. Tally was going to be pretty, but to get there she has to risk her life, just to change her face. To get what you want in life one has to endure a lot, just to get one’s way. Tally, the main character in Uglies by Scott Westerfeld, is a regular citizen of Uglyville but as she is about to turn pretty she has…

The Uglies written by Scott Westerfeld was published by Simon Pulse Publishing on May 2011 and contains 406 pages. The Uglies is a science fiction novel about Tally Youngblood, a teenage girl, living in Uglyville, who is trying to decide the truth of the pretty operation and the importance of her friends. The Uglies is the first of the four books in the Ugly series. Tally Youngblood, the main character in this novel, is a fifteen year old girl that lives in Uglyville. The author makes Tally…

All an ugly has ever dreamt of is to be pretty. What does is mean to be pretty? Does it mean just a symmetrical face, exquisite bone structure, and flawless skin? Or is there so much more that is all kept a secret? In Scott Westerfeld’s novel, Uglies, Tally Youngblood is just another ugly longing for her sixteenth birthday on which she is to turn pretty. All is well until she finds out that being pretty isn’t really as beautiful as it seems. Throughout the novel the theme of appearance showed…

Tally Youngblood is the main character in Scott Westerfield’s Uglies; Her characterization advances the theme of inner strength in the story. Tally is blackmailed into betraying her friend. Dr. Cable, a woman of high rankings, refuses to grant Tally permission to undergo a surgery to make her gorgeous unless Tally betrays her friend Shay. Tally is given orders to search for and uncover a secret society specified as the Smoke. Tally is a vulnerable, young girl whose only wish is to be…

Do you always feel like when you try to joke around and people react differently than you had originally thought? Well in the book the Uglies by Scott Westerfeld, the main character Tally feels this way. Throughout the book, Tally has people laughing or being shocked about the actions that is being done or has brought to the area. Tally thinks that both people in both civilizations will act the opposite way of how they really had reacted. Tally has both the pretties and Uglies react to her…

In today’s society, teenagers are thought to be lazy and unmotivated. However, that is not the truth. There are many examples that represent grit and determination by characters in the book Uglies, such as Tally Youngblood. Uglies is a dystopian type novel set in the future, written by Scott Westerfeld. It features a sixteen year old girl, named Tally Youngblood. Tally, had lived in a society where the majority of the people had cosmetic surgery to enhance beauty when they reach…

There are few genes dedicated to olfactory sense and they are similar in all organisms capable of detecting smell. My Dispute Statement: There are many genes that are used for detecting smell in organisms and by common descent, these similar genes change over time in different organisms. The genes that are dedicated to smell aren’t exactly the same, but mutated and changed to fit each chemical smell. These scent genes cannot be changed dramatically though as big mutations may cause the…