Film And Cinema

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What is Film? What is Cinema? What is Film? What is Cinema? Are these two definition equal to the same? Can we honestly say that both cinema and film are the same process of creation and experience? Or are both two concepts that are not being distinguished in the modern world that we stand in today? "Virtually all of us have enjoyed the experience of watching movies, and we are well aware of the many pleasures they bring". (Corrigan and White ,2009:preface v). When we talk about cinema, we cannot help deal with the topic of film as well. Indeed, those two terms are closely linked, or even more, they are complementary. This means that they need one and another to exist. But can we gather both of them in the same definition? Cinema and Film, or Cinema then Film? Film belongs to the field of materiality and cinema to the field of immateriality. First, film is an experience, something concrete that we can touch. Machines and equipment, all of the physical hardware that we can buy, sell and use. "Christened with perversely scientific names these Phenakistoscpes, Thatmatropes, Zoetropes and PraxinoscopesIt competed with magic lantern projections and panoramas to entertain audiences with dizzying stories".( Villarejo 2006:2). . But it also includes film formats, film forms and with narrative, to appreciate the richness of film narrative, "viewers must keep in mind the unique cultural history of narrative it's self",(Corrigan and White, 2009:229). , visual, "our visual experience is not just naturalistic; it is about fantastical, composed of pictures from our dreams and imaginations" (Corrigan and White, 2009: 97). and lastly sound, "sound is a sensual experience that potentially makes cinema's deepest impression" (Corrigan and White 2009:186). In short, film creates a link allowing some kind of an exchange between the viewer and the image. As
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