"Real life is becoming indistinguishable from the movies. The sound film, far surpassing the theatre of illusion, leaves no room for imagination or reflection on the part of the audience, who is unable to respond within the structure of the film, yet [who is also unable to] deviate from its precise detail without losing the thread of the story; hence the film forces its victims to equate it directly with reality."(Adorno, T & Horkheimer, M Dialectic of Enlightenment Verso London 1979 p126)
Well it is now week 3 of university, week 2 for our tutorial, if you want to count that! Anyways last weeks lecture was very long in my mind! I felt that it was too early to be talking about what we were talking about. So what were we talking about I hear you ask? Well...It all started with Media Theory (I know it grabs you straight away. Doesn't it? lol) So Steve (our lecturer) talked about how communications e.g television, newspapers and radio, has developed over the centuries and how they distribute messages from a centralised place, to all over the world! This I find quite fascinating, because if you think about the olden days...way, way back before I was born... they had had to write letters to communicate and they couldn't even dream of communicating to another person in another country! But today we can just hop on the internet or the phone at home and talk to anyone in the world! Me personally would rather use the internet to talk to someone overseas as the phone bill might be too much for my pay check to handle!
We watched a black and white film called 'Le Jetee' which pretty much expressed to the viewers that communication can travel anywhere, even across time! This movie I found quite boring as half the time you couldn't even read the subtitles lol but it was well produced as they used still shots which I believed was to show the viewer that we were looking at the main characters memory as our own memories are flashes!!
We also talked about how media is a big part of our lives and also how it is taking over our lives (refer to the quote above which was stated in our lecture) Now my thoughts on this is agreement as people believe everything that the media presents to us. For example, newspapers, magazines, Television. We are told stories everyday of our lives and we believe these to be true as they are a powerful form of communication and are told to everyone around the world. Therefore they would have to be true as they can't possibly lie to the whole world just for ratings!!! or could they?
Well I believe I have rambled on a bit too much so I'm goin to go so you can keep sane!!!
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