Film and the Spectator
With precise technique
Light and movement is captured
Time and space collide
All of the action: rehearsed
Form and function: realized
Emulsion layers
Chemicals react: color
Images of light
A flat surface and dark room
Two nor three-dimensional
Moving images
Projected patterns of light
Reading in the dark
Art, movement, and aesthetics
a literary revolt
And the audience
Language, structure, conventions
Emotion; Response
Cognitive abilities
Of you and I: observers
– J.R. Elbert
Reading Critical Theory
An idea or concept
emerges at the surface
It starts to settle
It is subject to
contemplation, scrutiny
careful examination
Dialectical
the true nature of thought
filling in the blanks, finding solutions
Juxtaposition: a new and different notion
What is critical theory?
Ideas: my own connections
It is contrapuntal
– J.R. Elbert