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A review by brandonychoi
The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction by Walter Benjamin
5.0
Fundamentally altered the way in which I view/digest art.
Favorite lines:
"The audience empathizes with the performer only by empathizing with the camera. It thus assumes the camera's stance: it tests."
"The kind of reception in a state of distraction...is symptomatic of profound changes in apperception has its true practice instrument in film...Film pushes back cult value only by persuading the audience to adopt an appraising stance but also by ensuring that this appraising stance in the cinema does not include attentiveness. The audience is an examiner, but a distracted one."
Favorite lines:
"The audience empathizes with the performer only by empathizing with the camera. It thus assumes the camera's stance: it tests."
"The kind of reception in a state of distraction...is symptomatic of profound changes in apperception has its true practice instrument in film...Film pushes back cult value only by persuading the audience to adopt an appraising stance but also by ensuring that this appraising stance in the cinema does not include attentiveness. The audience is an examiner, but a distracted one."