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Film as a Consumer Versus Subject of Experience
i want to focus on this point that you're drawing from santag about viewing the spectator as consumer, verses as subject of experience. Because what i'm hearing in that is possibly the idea that it's only when we think about the film as an object of consumption that we start to see ourselves as passive with respect to it. And cavel would take issue at that, because his response would be that this dynamic is not at all specific to the capitalist mode of consumption that dominates contemporary film viewership. For him, it's a lot more fundamentally about the nature of film itself. Film theorist jean luis baudri says that the dark movie theatre is the perfect space forview
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