Film Geekiness...
To some extent I believe in M Night Shyamalan's comments about the "day-and-date" model that people in the movie industry are coming up with as a possible "solution" to the piracy which has become a way of life...
It has a lot to do with Walter Benjamin's idea of "aura" and artwork... and Philip Auslander's idea of the importance of "liveness"... AND most importantly, the relation to Plato's "Allegory of the Cave" has to the cinematic experience.
To reduce all of that to stuff that's ONLY available for the medium of television is a BAD thing.
Here's the Shymalan article: Life and Death to Shyamalan.
Here's the Movie Filter citation: Day-and-Date Dustup.
And other Citations for the hell of it:
1) 'The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction' by Walter Benjamin
2) 'Liveness' the article version by Philip Auslander
3) Basic points of 'The Allegory of the Cave' minus the connection to film studies.
I might add something in the way of the Allegory's connection to film studies at a later date, but I'm too lazy right now.
It has a lot to do with Walter Benjamin's idea of "aura" and artwork... and Philip Auslander's idea of the importance of "liveness"... AND most importantly, the relation to Plato's "Allegory of the Cave" has to the cinematic experience.
To reduce all of that to stuff that's ONLY available for the medium of television is a BAD thing.
Here's the Shymalan article: Life and Death to Shyamalan.
Here's the Movie Filter citation: Day-and-Date Dustup.
And other Citations for the hell of it:
1) 'The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction' by Walter Benjamin
2) 'Liveness' the article version by Philip Auslander
3) Basic points of 'The Allegory of the Cave' minus the connection to film studies.
I might add something in the way of the Allegory's connection to film studies at a later date, but I'm too lazy right now.