1. Bazin claims cinema satisfies our obsession with realism.
... a real' image on canvas for all eternity, although the painting is, as Goddard calls it, an image of reality', it is created by man and so can be manipulated and is an artists interpretation of the reality. In the 18th and 19th century, the impressionist painters such as Van Gogh and Monet and cubists such as Picasso ... at capturing reality on film is the 1936 film Night Mail (Grierson,Watt,Wright). This documentary film takes a look at the workings of the General Post Office. The film was made to be shown in cinema and so it had to grab the audience' attention as well as promote the g...
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