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Reading Response: Walter Benjamin

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Reading this article is a tough time for me, a student who have little reading literary and artistic works experience. the article is full of some professional terms that i do not understand. However, there is still some point that I can share.   In the reading, Benjamin suggests that the technological reproduction may change the way that the art develop, and the historical value will be devalued. It is because with nowadays technology, reproduce the historical artifacts are easy. These will be causing the original cultural relics lose their uniqueness. It is the point that we cannot deny. However,

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I think we cannot look at the problem from a single angle. Walter Benjamin said in the article: captions become obligatory. From the perspective of art authors, adding captions to make it a mandatory requirement can express the author’s ideas more simply and clearly, so that these ideas can be accurately conveyed to the audience. From the perspective of the audience, captions can be used as a reference, but they do not necessarily follow the guidelines of captions to understand the work. As Shakespeare’s famous saying: “There are a thousand Hamlets in a thousand people’s eyes.” I also think that

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Reading Response: Roland Barthes AND Walter Benjamin

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The coordination of various senses To architectures and films,atmosphere is especially important. Films require the audiences to forget the world they are in and let their souls enter another body, so they change the light around you and use sound“to reinforce the lifelikeness of the anecdote”as ROLAND said.Is architecture only for visual aesthetics?I think we can learn something from films,think about more diverse sensory types in design. For example,in one building I saw,there was a blue pool, in which more than 200 porcelain bowls fluttered and collided with the current, making a clear sound. As for the reproduction of artworks,BENJAMIN

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[Reading Response: Walter Benjamin]

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I like Walter Benjamin’s explanation of the “aura” of artwork. According to him, aura appears when the artist first creates the artwork with their intended perspectives, but would disappear when the artist’s thought is misunderstood. This may caused due because the duplication of the artwork and viewer’s situations. The duplication of the artwork is merely the copy of the surface of the artwork, and is the blasphemy to the original aura of the artwork. Besides, if the audience views the artwork in a different situation compared to the artist, they may read the meaning behind the artwork differently. Yet, I

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Reading Response: Roland Barthes

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After reading the article, I would like to watch more films in the cinema. The feeling that enjoying a film inside the cinema suddenly come up to my mind during my reading. I really understand that what is the “Hypnosis” that Barthes said. Rendered by the light and sound from the film in the cinema, I can easily be hypnotized that “I am the main character.” When the hypnosis, I can just put down myself and enjoy being another one. Regrettably, I have already forgotten that feeling. Maybe I am not as free as a child just go and watch

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[READING RESPONSE] WALTER BENJAMIN

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Chan Sum Kie Dorcas u3579263 The new and innovative are what most captivated us, and what most captivates us generates the greatest reaction.  Technology has pushed reproducibility to its most extreme, it seems what Benjamin has observed in 1935 has been normalising, or even worsening over the past 90 something years. On the surface, art does seem to be losing its aura, its technicality to convenience.  Some of the most popular artists on social media pages mostly create 2-dimensional pieces such as illustrations, paintings, photographs.  The still, easily portable are what most people choose as a medium nowadays.  We no

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Reading Response: Roland Barthes

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The reading inspired me to think about the speciality of movie theatres. Can going to the theatre be totally replaced by watching DVD or Netflix? The answer is no. Even though the relaxation of postures is able to be achieved by lying on beds, the unfamiliar and indistinct atmosphere, which can make people dive into the fascination and illusion created by the huge screen and surround sound to experience the representation of the movie, cannot be created by other environments. Besides, going to movie theatre is a special entertainment culture in society. Think about the places couples would like to

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Reading Response: Roland Barthes

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“Leaving the Movie Theater” of “The Rustle of Language” by Roland Barthes is mainly about his views of film and movie theater. Barthes argues that watching a film in the movie theater is an experience of hypnosis and healing to him and this idea is novel and interesting. It is easy for us to face the desire for occupation due to restrictions and boredom in daily lives, but the surroundings of the theater let us have the chance to lose in reverie. In the theater, darkness, anonymous environment, crowd, absence of ideological boundary, relaxation of postures, sound, and rays of

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Reading Response: Roland Barthes.

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Leaving the movie theater written by Roland Barthes impresses me a lot and gives me some answers to some questions.For example, why does a film need its main character and why does this character/these characters need a long introduction and foreshadowing?This can be answered by what he mentioned, a film is trying to establish the naturalness(the pseudo-nature)through the image.This can satisfy the narcissism of human.And one main character or characters can be the illusion of people himself/herself.One idea in this text why people enjoy sitting in the cinema is the darkness and strangeness make watching different, and make it erotic

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