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Philosophy

The Aesthetics of Film and the Ontology of Cinematic Representation

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André Bazin, a key film theorist, argued that cinema is an 'objective' representation of reality because the photographic image shares an existential bond with what it records—it's a 'fingerprint' of the world, unlike painting or literature.

Why this is interesting

You watch a chase scene and your heart races, even though you know it's just actors and stunt doubles. Why do moving images have such a powerful grip on our sense of reality?