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Is There a Difference Between Film and Ontology?
Ser and i both teach aesthetics, but i honestly leave out film most of the time. It's because i'm so weak on the philosophy of film. Ser: What are some of the main candidates that philosophers point to as markers of what makes cinema different from the other ons? Yes. So one way to define film is to describe it as the medium that transforms discontinuity - snap shots on a film strip. But there are other art forms that hinge on temporality, like dance. Theatre also is a fundamentally temporal art form. And doesn't something like theatre do essentially the same thing as film?
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