How has the experience of cinema-going changed over the past century

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1986) Although the article may appear to condone cinema-going for its hypnotic affect it has on us, this experience helps us escape reality for a brief moment and absorb the film as if it's reality. Jean-Claude Carriere's introduction to his book The Secret Language of Film, discusses whether we can ever truly ?see' a film...
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Carriere makes the comment that when we see movies, "we see [movies] imperfectly." (Carriere, JC. 1994) The most obvious reason for this is Barthes' theory that we have entered a hypnotic state and therefore our mind may be elsewhere at a crucial moment of the film...
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