RTVF 230 Midterm

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1. Elizabeth painter of the Napoleon portrait 14. The Section I courage, be free and fear slavery,
Peyton showed how the knowledge of Republic emotion over knowledge
photography has changed art Book III - things that are "poetic and pleasing" but should
2. Jeff Walls photography of the woman using the be deleted
mirror Section II problem of form
Section III media arts + education
3. Meshes of the Maya Deren Section IV people need music, poetry,
Afternoon demonstrates Baudry physical training (and that's it)
4. Dana Schutz painter of the controversial Emmett Till
painting at the Whitney the kinds of stories people should/should not
5. Ontological relating to the branch of metaphysics hear
dealing with the nature of being - Narratives, characters, heroes
- Treating media art as a proxy for society
6. Epistemological relating to the theory of knowledge,
- The power of images
especially with regard to its methods,
- Elite/mass media
validity, and scope, and the distinction
- Social critique
between justified belief and opinion
15. The ontological critique
7. Plato "The Republic"
Republic - "Philosopher King"
loves the Illiad and Odyssey but edits them
Book VII - In critical theory contexts, cinema embodies an
because he believes they are bad for
anxiety about...
society
- Philosopher king must (only!) learn:
society was in a constant state of war and
- Art/music, physical training,
threat of conflict
numbers/calculation, geometry, astronomy,
8. Herodotus Plato's teacher dialectic (philosophy)
concerned about the world/physics
16. The epistemological critique
"can't stick a foot in the same river twice"
Republic - The return of poetry as a problem
the world is in flux, society in constant
Book X - Three kinds of beds, tables, flutes
chaos
- Form - thing - image
9. Parminides Plato influence - God - craftsmen - imitator
all beings are connected, world is in a - User - maker - pointer
permanent state, metaphysics is beyond - Knowledge
society - Your physical experience of the world is a
10. Protagorus Plato influence copy from somewhere else, Image = copy of a
Sophist: "arguers for hire" copy
philosophy tells you about human beings - What do we have when it comes to reality?
- Poets must be expelled in order to have
11. Socrates Plato influence
truth/justice no imitations at all
overthrows sophism realistic belief there
is one "good" for everyone, the idea of 17. La Jetee Chris Marker
virtue 1963 Philosophical meditation on closure, life, notion
of representation
12. The Republic different approaches with a common
Demonstrates Bazin
touchstone, imagines a perfect society of
peace and harmony 18. Haskell - - The Women's Film
runs into the problem of media (poetry, "From - Marriage kills joy
painting, music, etc.) Reverence - Basically movies that portray women as
how society should be to Rape" emotional, needy, doing anything for love, stuck
in a role of inferiority
13. The Republic problem of power/justice, depictions of the
Book II Gods 19. The Compensation for "all the dominated universes
a god isn't the cause of all things, just the Women's from which she has been excluded: the gangster
good things Film film, the western, the war film, the policier, the
ex. Plato argues that stories about Gods' rodeo film, the adventure film
bad actions are false The purpose of these fables is not to encourage
"women" to rebel or question her role, but to
reconcile her to it, and thus preserve status quo
20. Hall - "The - Ideology = The images, concepts and
Whites of premises which provide frameworks through
Their Eyes" which we represent, interpret understand and
make sense of some aspect of social
existence
- Focuses on relations of subordination and
domination, a notion of superior and inferior
species, displacement of issues from history
into nature
- Racial differences emerge as signs of
inferiority arising from breeding or natural
ranking
- Media helps create and transform
ideologies, including the definition and
imagery of race
21. Inferential representations of events and situation
Racism relating to race, where racist premises are
unquestioned assumptions
less blatant and less visible than overt racism,
often because people don't knowingly,
deliberately adopt such beliefs
27. Simulacra a copy without an original
- Ex. Disneyland, malls, retirement homes,
Vegas, etc. feelings of authentic things
28. Precession of many of our experiences happen first in
Simulacra simulacra and then in simulation
- Map that precedes the territory
- Ex. first time you saw a date was in a
media form not real life
29. Hyper-real a radiating synthesis of combinatory
models
30. 4 Stages of 1. Reflection of a profound reality ex.
Simulation pictures of Jesus
2. Mashes and denatures of a profound
reality ex. pictures with mirrors
3. Mashes the absence of a profound
reality ex. naming a street "Elm Street"
with no elms
4. It has no relation to reality
whatsoever, it is its own pure simulacra
ex. medical ads with actors

22. Mitchell - What if media/art aren't about trust/justice? 31. Certified Copy Abbas Kiarostami
"What Do - What if they can't make the world a better Demonstrates Baudrillard
Pictures place? 32. The Frankfurt 1923 institute for social research, a group
Want?" - What if they are about desire? Institute of thinkers
What is our task (as critics)? - Mission to find out what's wrong with
- Is critique the same as politics? capitalism
- The picture as antagonist, from power to - Marxism and psychosis
desire - Aesthetics and critical theory
23. Bazin - The preservation of life by the representation - Problem of modernity What that
"Ontology of of life future should/should not have
the - Art is fear of death 33. Benjamin - "The art is useless for fascism but useful for
Photographic Photography prevents "pseudo realism" Artwork Essay" "reformation of revolutionary demands"
Image" - Radical new psychology Section I -Art serves people in different ways
- Credibility - What are the tendencies of art
- Represented in time/space, not reproduced
- "Transference of reality from the thing to it's Was a German Jew Nazism behind
reproduction" every word
Mummy Complex - Marx art/culture is a lagging indicator
24. Mummy people want to have their image preserved of social change
Complex after they die - Work/labor moves history

25. Stanley Film can depict fantasies 34. Benjamin - "The Reproductability is not new
Cavell - We don't know what a photograph is Artwork Essay" Photography has changed the game
"Sights and - We don't know how to place it Section II important of artistic intervention with
Sounds" ontologically your choices through your eye
- Not a likeness/shadow/replica By 1900 all art could be reproduced
Sound as sight 35. Benjamin - "The Theory of the Aura
- Sounds "come from" while we "look at" Artwork Essay" Devaluation of the Aura
- Speaking to God vs. seeing God = you lead Sections III-IV Aura gives way to mass existence
vs. you die A change in quantity creates a change in
26. Baudrillard - We can't get to reality quality
"The Used fake Biblical quote to prove his point Mass existence is good though will
Precession of Not worried about lies, worried about when bring about a society we want to live in
Simulacra" the truth doesn't matter 36. Theory of the the here/now of the work (where it is) is
Images eradicate a sense of the real Aura what matters
No way out of the phoniness
37. Devaluation of when technological reproduction 50. Carroll - "Baudry takedown of Baudry
the Aura becomes the norm, the aura dissolves and Apparatus" Disagrees with the dream/movie
38. Aura feeling we have about things that make analogy
them unique Theory of Plato's cave prefiguring the
cinema is underwhelming
39. Benjamin - "The Where did aura come from? mysticism Thinks the theory should be
Artwork Essay" Art embedded in tradition, has a place in approached by science, harsh critic
Section V society (for a long time in ritual)
- Ritual = reason why art exists
- Technology "emparticipates the work of
art from its parasitic subservience to ritual"
- Instead of ritual, art is now open to
politics
40. Benjamin - "The Cult Value < Exhibition Value
Artwork Essay" - Art exists for ritual vs. to be seen
Sections VI-VII Film as a trading for experience
- Cult remembrance nearly
photographers have an aura that modern
photography doesn't
41. Benjamin - "The Test Film (Screen Test): actor addressing a
Artwork Essay" camera, look good on film
Sections X-XII Stage vs. Film Actor
Self-Alienation
Non-centre of the masses
42. Stage vs. Film the difference is editing, the stage requires
Actor true embodiment vs. fragmentation of
aura
43. Self-Alienation good, film exported to mass experience
44. Non-centre of film actors relinquish control of their
the masses image
45. Benjamin - "The Equilibrium between human beings and
Artwork Essay" the apparatus
Section XVI
46. Benjamin - "The Shock effects
Artwork Essay" Distraction vs. concentration
Section XVIII- Film as reception in distraction
XIX "Communication replies by politicizing art"
47. Baudry - Psychoanalysis
Apparatus Theory of ideology - viewer's position of
Theory power (Mulvey)
Theory of technological determinism
Cinema-going and dreaming are
analogous:
- Inhibition of movement, lack of reality
test, darkened rooms, medium of images,
use of screens
- Freud dream theories apply to movies
- Plato's cave prefigures the cinema
48. Technological reductionist theory that presumes that a
Determinism society's technology drives the
development of its social structure and
cultural values
49. Primitive when dreams/movies feel real
Narcissism