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Article: "You never had a camera inside my head": the masculine subject of the postmodern sublime.(Critical Essay)
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- Criticism
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- January 1, 2003
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1. Introduction: Beyond Ontology and Epistemology
DAVID BORDWELL ONCE OBSERVED usefully that every film theory implies an ontology, an epistemology, and an aesthetics. (1) Though tree, historically the three branches of film theory have not received equal attention. For roughly the first seventy-five years after the invention of cinema, film theorists were understandably preoccupied with the nature of the new medium, that is, with questions of ontology (Qu'est-que c'est le cinema, indeed); for the last twenty-five years, the focus has been on the relationship between the spectator and the cinematic text or apparatus, that is, on questions of epistemology. ...