ome pages sometimes seem to contain more information than the actual body of the text. It’s as if Benjamin states an idea or thought and then explains it further in the footnote rather than in following sentences.

Benjamin states “The feeling of strangeness that overcomes the actor before the camera, as Pirandello describes it, is basically of the same kind of estrangement felt before one’s own image in the mirror. But now the reflected image has become separable, transportable, and where is it transported? Before the public” (Benjamin 88). The type of strangeness described by seeing yourself in the mirror or on film is separated by the fact that thousands of people will see you when on film, while in the mirror your aura is there only for you to see. The footnote following this quote states “The

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