----------------------------Original message---------------------------- On Fri, 13 Jan 1995 09:17:01 CST DOUG SIMPSON said: > However, a person could take this the next step forward, and >say that all film is by its own nature self-referential. A zoom in, >a pan, a special effect, any added or deliberately chosen film action >"shows" to the audience that what is being watched is a creation, and >not realistic, even a documentary about events that have really >occurred. > Doug Simpson There are people who argue along the above lines. One the other hand, (academics always have several hands) an argument could me made that photographic images are transparent, unless specific measures are taken to foreground the technique in contrast to the subject. Consider: What are the implications of people saying "This is my mother" when displaying a snapshot of a woman? Clearly the small piece of paper is not literally "mother." But for the purposes at hand one can elide the middle words in the sentence "This is a picture of my mother." ------------------------------------------------------------------- Cal Pryluck, Radio-Television-Film, Temple University, Philadelphia <[log in to unmask]> <[log in to unmask]>