Where is film today?
In the process of beginning to
organise a Film-Philosophy special edition on Baudrillard and Film (do email me
if interested) I was considering Baudrillard’s suggestion that slowly but surely
the collective nature of the experience of film – in the cinema itself - is
diminishing. Apparently this loses a film audience the possibility of a
symbolic, Durkheimian dimension of ‘collective effervescence’. Is this the case?
What are the implications of this move from a collective to singular audience?
And given the growth of visual technologies, can we question, and does it even
make sense to ask ‘where is film today’?
Cheers,
Jon
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