Films are not artworks. Film is not art.
Best
Damian
On 5/25/09 10:37 PM, "Aaron Smuts" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 5:08 PM, Frank, Michael <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> have a better candidate??
>>
>
> artworks
>
> When we are talking about movies, we can call them "movies." When we
> are talking about poems, we can call them "poems." If we are talking
> about a works that appear to be hybrids, we can call them "works" or
> create some kind of hyphenated label. It doesn't matter much.
>
> My primary concern is with the literary analogy. Calling movies
> "texts" suggests that we can treat them like novels. In some ways we
> can and in other ways we can't. Calling them texts obscures the
> differences. It's not all that big of an issue. I've called moves
> "texts", but I'm afraid that it leads to talk about the "language of
> film" which I find very obscure and very misleading.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Aaron
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