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The myth of Total Cinema  Keep in mind filmmaker model is very different from the director role  Cinema was before its time but also seems delayed in its development  Total cinema: cannot be reached, will never be reality because the development of cinema is constantly evolving  Integral realism  Myth of total cinema: the route toward total cinema will never end, o move towards objectivity o "in their imaginations, they saw cinema as a total and complete representation of reality, the reconstruction of a perfect illusion of the outside world in sound, color, and relief" (20) o Utopian hope that maybe one could record a world objectivity, not with the hand of creativity o Finding tech. that enables us to record the world again as a singularity in as complete a record as possible  Cinema is not arresting movement, it is reproducing it  The engineers had the technology suitable for film, but they were not thinking about cinema o It took that vision or desire to realize what could be possible  For Arnheim, recreating reality in cinema is recreating Inattentive movement that we have in the world Evolution of the Language of Cinema  Bazin: Two trends in silent Cinema o Image trend  Plastics (German expressionism)  Strives after moving painting, but not reality (Cabinet of Dr. Caligari)  Montage (Soviet Montage) as a manipulation of reality  Doing violence to reality, ruling out ambiguity by  Being given and told a certain feeling  No image by itself has a meaning  Sometimes objects are never seen in the same frame  Meaning owes everything to montage, and nothing to reality o Reality trend  Weaker than image trend  Where the dialectics come into play, documentary realism o Two opposing terms come together to form a new term, continuity editing seems to be a compromise  After coming of sound: radical expressionism and Soviet montage fall away. Continuity editing becomes a norm  A movement toward long takes, deep space, deep focus, but through the lessons of continuity editing o With continuity editing, you can move people around and light each shot differently and put it together as the same moment o Doesn't owe its entire meaning to montage o Using resources of staging, depth of field, and long take to keep all the action together and realistic o Active spectator  Cutoff line is not movement from silent to sound...