The photoplay; a psychological study (1916)

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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 #:
000171
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 means to show us the depth of real nature. Now we grasp why the poet expresses his feelings and thoughts in the entirely unnat- ural language of rhythms and rhymes. Now we see why every work of art has its frame or its base or its stage. Everything serves that central purpose, the separation of the offered experience from the background of our real life. When we have a painted gar- den before us, we do not want to pick the flowers from the beds and break the fruit from the branches. The flatness of the pic- ture tells us that this is no reality, in spite of the fact that the size of the painting may not be different from that of the windowpane through which we see a real garden. We have no thought of bringing a chair or a warm coat for the woman in marble. The work which the sculptor created stands before us in a space into which we cannot enter, and be- cause it is entirely removed from the reality toward which our actions are directed we be- come esthetic spectators only. The smile of the marble girl wins, us as if it came from a living one, but we do not respond to her wel- come. Just as she appears in her marble form she is complete in herself without any 162