Film Theory Film and Reality
When photography appears in historical development, its indexicality adds the appeal of endurance through time to the impression of likeness in painted perspective. Crucially, ?likeness' is not given epistemological or cognitive value in itself, but rather is being invoked as a sup- port for fundamental needs of the subject vis-a-vis time. And cinema adds duration to the embalming of a single temporal instant in still photography. As Bazin puts it in ?The Myth of Total Cinema,? this makes cinema the realization of a perennial compulsion, a virtually ageless dream of perfect realism, which would have to include duration. But, as with any wish fulfillment, such preservation of the real object is protectively converted into the preservation of the subject. Always, for Bazin, cinema achieves its specificity through the relations of the subject.
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Crito Is a Short Dialogue
Crito is a short dialogue written by an ancient Greek philosopher, Plato. The conversation between Socrates and his wealthy friend, Crito, revolved around justice and the suitable reaction to injustice.
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