Adriana De La Torre"FILM AS ART" by Rudolf Arnheim
Summary
Film theory is one of the most important elements discussed in the publication, being a collection of frameworks developed over time in order to properly understand the way films are made and received. Film theory is not a self-contained field: it borrows from the disciplines of philosophy, art theory, social science, cultural theory, psychology, literary theory, linguistics, economics, and political science.This piece of writing also concerns Cinematography-which is the process by which a film strip is exposed to light to create an image- and its many factors: the camera’s distance from the action, camera angle and direction, type of lens, camera movement, and lighting, among others. The art of film stresses the arrangement of objects and movements in the frame to create a successful moving picture.
Reaction
There’s no split between art and entertainment, BECAUSE it is open to interpretation.
We draw our examples from documentaries, animated films, avant-garde films, mainstream entertainment vehicles, and films aimed at narrower audiences. People have tended to think of cinema as an art by means of rough analogies to the other arts. After all, film came along at a point when virtually all the other arts had been around forever. So it’s been natural for people to compare and scrutinize this new medium with older ones. I think there is also different subcategories of film as art :photographic art, narrative art, a performing art, pictorial art, and an audiovisual art all of which I'd like to further research, explore and incorporate into my work in the future.
