| Reference Type |
chapter
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| Title |
Illuminations |
| Chapter/Web article title |
The Work of Art In The Age of Mechanical REproduction |
| Author(s) | Walter Benjamin |
| Editor(s) | Hannah Arendt |
| Publication Date |
00-00-1969 |
| Page Number |
217-251 |
| Comments |
A fascinating piece of historical writing which attempts to predict the impact of cinema on the world. Also urges the use of film as a propaganda tool. It is interesting that he thought of cinema as an art-form even at its early stages, unlike many who saw it as somehow beneath the term.
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| Synopsis |
A Marxist critique of cinema which is a seminal esssay for Benjamin.It charts the transition of art from the unique to the reproducible and the consequences this will have on the relationship of art to the masses. |
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