Your biography in one quote

Post by **grant** » Fri Jul 11, 2003 8:19 pm

Ever do any Lacanian film crit?

miss michaela dee · Post by **miss michaela dee** » Mon Jul 14, 2003 8:39 am

Well, I did read Lacan in school -- though I can't remember if I ever really incorporated much of his work into my papers. (Maybe it was in that Hitchcock class -- or when we did Bergman?)

To be honest, I'm more of a Walter Benjamin girl. I was never much good at teasing meaning out of things with items from the psychoanalytic tool box.

Post by **grant** » Mon Jul 14, 2003 11:38 am

So where's the "aura" in a film?

miss michaela dee · Post by **miss michaela dee** » Mon Jul 14, 2003 12:42 pm

Darling, I must get a meal in me before I answer that.

But, actually, Benjamin discusses cinema and aura *somewhere* in "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction" (*picture me thinking hard and then resorting to Google)

Aha! See sections X-XIII:
http://www.student.math.uwaterloo.ca/~c ... jamin.html

omphale · Post by **omphale** » Tue Jul 15, 2003 9:03 am

Hmmm, wrong thread...

Post by **Liesbeth** » Tue Jul 15, 2003 9:26 am

isn't it funny how a topic can move from one line quotes to 4 whole chapters of film analysis.

Post by **grant** » Tue Jul 15, 2003 11:26 am

He seems locate it outside the film itself, in the offscreen lives of the film idols. Hmm. That might be true for a certain kind of Hollywood product, but doesn't say much about, say, "28 Days Later" or "Igby Goes Down" (both films with well-known actors, but not quite in the Hollywood star system).
And what would Benjamin make of Stan Brakhage?

Post by **grant** » Wed Jul 16, 2003 9:47 am

On the other hand, his whole thesis is that the reproduced art is the aura-less art. Which makes me wonder if aura is really a part of art at all, and not some related phenomenon. Like "preciousness".

I suppose he'd argue that solitary, surviving prints of films (like some of Charlie Chaplin's pictures) kept cloistered in film libraries would have something approaching aura.

Harvey Winters · Post by **Harvey Winters** » Sat Mar 10, 2007 12:27 am

"The shitty thing about Atheism, is you have no one to blame, but yourself"-Me

nwheather · Post by **nwheather** » Sat Mar 10, 2007 3:29 pm

Bwaha, I was just about to ask how many bonus points you get for quoting yourself...how many do you get for quoting your own song?

Everyone knows if you hear nothing, you'll never have to listen to a lie

Non-song:

We are driven apart more often by our similarities than by our differences.

Ignorance may be bliss to the ignorant, but to everyone else, it's just annoying.

Harvey Winters · Post by **Harvey Winters** » Sat Mar 10, 2007 4:10 pm

nwheather wrote:Everyone knows if you hear nothing, you'll never have to listen to a lie

I'm stealing that, and since I'm in NY, you're helpless to stop me...
(Unless I bring another one of my children to Seattle for a Vera show)

I had a similar one:

"Although I knew it to be a lie,
it was the most beautiful lie I'd ever heard"...

nwheather · Post by **nwheather** » Tue Mar 13, 2007 10:25 am

Harvey Winters wrote:I'm stealing that, and since I'm in NY, you're helpless to stop me...
(Unless I bring another one of my children to Seattle for a Vera show)

*flails helplessly whilst being stolen from*

It's not as though I could make it to Seattle, either.

the new girl · Post by **the new girl** » Tue Mar 13, 2007 5:00 pm

"It's not living a lie if you're not living at all."-Aqueduct

Fits the recent them of the thread, could be my bio in one line, and has been stuck in my head for WEEKS (not entirely a bad thing). Saw them last Wednesday and that's only made it worse in a way, but 'twas a damn fine performance (even if 2 of the 3 openers were really, really, really bad).

A Brutaful Smile · Post by **A Brutaful Smile** » Wed Mar 14, 2007 2:06 pm

I got it...

"She rocked!"

The Long Winters

Your biography in one quote

I didn't get to do this yet, so