The photoplay; a psychological study (1916)

Record Details:

Title:
The photoplay; a psychological study
Date:
1916
Publisher:
New York [etc.] D. Appleton and company
Volume:
The photoplay; a psychological study
Leaf #:
00085
Language:
English
Collection:
Books
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Cornell University Library
Sponsor:
MSN
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Date Added:
July 19, 2022
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THE PHOTOPLAY voluntary attention is eliminated from the sphere of art and that the audience is neces- sarily following the lead of an attention which receives all its cues from the work of art itself and which therefore acts involuntarily? To be sure, we may approach a theater perform- ance with a voluntary purpose of our own. For instance, we may be interested in a par- ticular actor and may watch him with our opera glass all the time whenever he is on the stage, even in scenes in which his role is in- significant and in which the artistic interest ought to belong to the other actors. But such voluntary selection has evidently nothing to do with the theater performance as such. By such behavior we break the spell in which the artistic drama ought to hold us. We disre- gard the real shadings of the play and by mere personal side interests put emphasis where it does not belong. If we really enter into the spirit of the play, our attention is con- stantly drawn in accordance with the inten- tions of the producers. Surely the theater has no lack of means to draw this involuntary attention to any im- portant point. To begin with, the actor who speaks holds our attention more strongly 76