The New Age of Reproducibility of Art

Benamin famously describes the cenema as a sort of training ground for the citize of modernity. When you go to the cinema, you are once again receiving a story or a mythology in a collective way. This is much more like the era of story telling, where you become part of an audience of observers and listeners. In this new age of the mass reproducibility of art, benamin thinks that this changes several key premises about art which artists now has to have in the back of their minds if they ever want to survive within a capitalist society.