Film as something other than literary theory:
a) avoiding Aristotlean norms, i.e. plot, character, setting . . . Hence,
unethical associations.
b) avoiding symbolic interpretations, i.e. thematic interpretations
(meta-myths) of plot, character, setting . . .
c) rethinking genre: . . . comedy . . . (basis: plot), biography . . .
(basis: character), Western . . . (basis: setting), . . . in terms of X
genre (for example, movies where John Wayne wears a hat)
Film as something other than art history:
a) rethinking the origins and basis of art: Nietzsche's _Birth of Tragedy
out of the Spirit of Music_, i.e. art as something other than art history
Film as a style of presentation: movement, framing, repetition (scores), .
. .
I'm afraid this discussion is "a discourse that is equally capable of taking
up medical x-rays or cinema," but it's part of the bargain--no literary
theory is privileged.
cave paintings as film
camp fire stories as film
Plato's "Story of the Cave" in the _Republic_ as one of the first film
criticisms
Pompeii murals as film
_Henry V_ as Shakespearean Film Theory
opera as film
illustrated text as film
cartoons and comics as film (framed, unframed)
Blake's works as film
looms as film
punch cards as film
magic lanterns as film
trip to moon as film (from _Voyage to Moon_ to _Capricorn 5_)
Orientalism (Beardsley . . .) and Imagism (Ezra Pound . . .) as film
_The Glass Menagerie_ as film
finger puppets on the overhead projector as film
Andy Warhol's work in film--film as collection of moments
computer chips as film
TV as film
computer monitors as film
Pamela and Tommy Lee internet video as film
traffic as film
fish tanks as film
night vision goggles as film
holograms
_Hamlet on the Holodeck_
JMC
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