"Perception is not whimsical, but fatal." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Movies turn viewers into willing participants looking to break through the screen--the "fourth wall"--and temporarily adopt the POV of the camera and taking on its surveying gaze. Your own emotional response may vary--excitement, titillation, utter boredom--but the camera's eye is your own, if only for the duration of the film. In her landmark essay, "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema," written in the 1970s, scholar and filmmake...
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"Perception is not whimsical, but fatal." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Movies turn viewers into willing participants looking to break through the screen--the "fourth wall"--and temporarily adopt the POV of the camera and taking on its surveying gaze. Your own emotional response may vary--excitement, titillation, utter boredom--but the camera's eye is your own, if only for the duration of the film. In her landmark essay, "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema," written in the 1970s, scholar and filmmake...
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