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 #:
000182
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 MEANS OF THE PHOTOPLAY photoplay can show in intertwined scenes everything which our mind embraces. Events in three or four or five regions of the world can be woven together into one complex action. Finally, we saw that every shade of feeling and emotion which fills the spectator's mind can mold the scenes in the photoplay until they appear the embodiment of our feel- ings. In every one of these aspects the photo- play succeeds in doing what the drama of the theater does not attempt. If this is the outcome of esthetic analysis on the one side, of psychological research on the other, we need only combine the results of both into a unified principle: the photoplay tells us the human story Tjy overcoming the forms of the outer world, namely, space, time, and causality, and by adjusting the events to the forms of the inner world, namely, at- tention, memory, imagination, and emotion. We shall gain our orientation most directly if once more, under this point of view, we compare the photoplay with the perform- ance on the theater stage. We shall not enter into a discussion of the character of the reg- ular theater and its drama. We take this for granted. Everybody knows that highest art 173