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[READING RESPONSE] : Roland Barthes

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In Leaving the Movie Theater, Roland Barthes introduced me to a brand-new idea: the experience of watching movies in theatres creates a hypnotic environment. It deeply affects the enjoyment of the audience. The darkness that surrounds the theater and the screen serves as the only source of light intensify and immerse the audiences into the film. Also, some other settings including the sound play an important role in shaping the immersive experience. These factors are “Lure” that makes audiences having shorter distance with the film as well as escaping from reality. While some people argue that we can now create

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[Reading Response] Leaving the Movie Theater by Roland Barthes

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In the passage, Roland asked a question, ‘What does the “darkness” of the cinema mean?’ He thinks that it is not only the substance of reverie, but also the “color” of a diffused eroticism, as people can sit with their most relaxation of posture in the cinema. By the “darkness” of the cinema, most of the senses of people have been deprived, making them can only concentrate to the screen. Even inside the same space, people are isolated in the cinema. No need to care about your image, no need to think about any other things. Inside the cinema, there

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[Reading Response] Roland Barthes: Leaving the Movie Theater

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The writer talks about the importance of the place where you watch the moving images in this article. In one of the sections, he suggests that cinema provides an unfamiliar, dark, and anonymous place for the audience to focus only on the movie. Although I have the same idea as him, things are different. In my experiences of watching a movie in the theatre, people always forgot to switch their phones into silent mode, talked loudly, kicked my chair, etc. The bad feeling was the only thing I could get after watching the movie. Besides these annoying behaviours, there was

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[READING RESPONSE] Roland Barthes: Leaving the Movie Theater

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Roland proposed the idea that movie theaters can be seen as ‘hypnotic’, which is caused by the ‘cinema situation’. It refers to the darkness intended to separate reality and emerging/ enclosing audiences as if they are in a cocoon. With the film image as the only light source in the theater, audiences are ‘glued’ to the film. However, we can be unglued from this situation through two ways— image and surroundings.   I appreciate the idea of Roland analyzing theater as two separate elements: the film image that acts as a surface layer and surroundings that are crucial to understand a

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[Reading Response] Leaving The Movie Theatre

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Every time visiting to the cinema, are we only going for the plot or visual effect (car chasing, explosion, etc.) ? Some might say yes , but that won’t be different from watching at home then. As what have been elaborated in the reading, Roland mentioned that anonymity, darkness and ambiguity are those major elements composing the cinematography hypnosis. Immerse oneself in the dark, although perceiving the existence of other audience, we cannot actually realize it. Since dark has merely covered up our vision, making us focusing on the screen. Unlike watching at home, there won’t be your beloved cat

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Reading response

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These articles collectively emphasize the critical role of cinema in reflecting and shaping urban culture, identity, and art amid technological advancements and cultural shifts. This wide-ranging discourse covers Barthes’ phenomenological reflections on the alienation experienced in the cinematic space, as well as Benjamin’s critical examination of the declining aura of art in the era of mechanical reproduction. In addition, it provides an in-depth analysis of how cinema interacts with Asian cities and cultural identities, highlighting the medium’s dual function as a reflector and creator. The uniqueness of cinema lies in its ability to simultaneously resonate with societal norms and create

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[Reading response] – Leaving the Movie Theatre by Roland Barthes

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Yueming LI (Michael) [3036260462] The article illustrates the speaker’s habits, leading to a discussion of cinema. The author describes that the word “cinema” makes him think of the architecture instead of the film content on show. This highlights the importance of place, space, and setting of the cinema, it is crucial in capturing and captivating the audience. By showing the film in a dark setting, the film becomes the only visible thing, eliminating any distracting visuals and enabling the audience to concentrate on the film. Furthermore, the author compares how different settings affect the perception of film content, using the

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[READING RESPONSE] ROLAND BARTHES: Leaving the Movie Theater

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This passage mainly discuss the role of cinema when people are watching films, theoretically explain that the darkness environment can provide people with relaxation and self-preoccupation. The author analyzed his state when watching films. Interestingly, he points out a mode of watching: having two bodies and being fascinated twice. According to the text, there are two sources of fascination for watching films in cinema. One is the surroundings associated with the perverse body; another is the image associated with the narcissistic body. Here, I want to focus mainly on the surroundings. The author put forward a concept as a cinema

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Reading response 1 – Leaving the Movie Theatre by Robert Barthes

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In Ronald Barthes’s Leaving the Movie Theatre, he argues that the hypnosis in a holistic movie theatre experience is achieved through the synergy between the twilight repertoire and the image repertoire. Whereby the spectator possesses the narcissistic tendency to simultaneously identify with the spectacle whilst admiring it, and the anonymity of the dark environment allows the perverse body to indulge in the freedom of modern erotisim. While this may be true, the impact of hypnosis is not guaranteed across all types of films such that the gendered use of film semiotics can significantly affect voyeurism and narcissism (Mulvey, 1975). For

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[READING RESPONSE] Roland Barthes: Leaving the Movie Theater

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The author describes the environment of the theater inside the cinema. In the cinema, the darkness is a kind of hypnosis. It makes people isolated from society. When people is watching a film inside the theater, the projector penetrates the air and dust. Dust is dancing with the film which led the audience to focus more on the film itself. The author is surprised by the projector as it just uses a tiny hole which already makes all the audience flabbergasted on the film itself. The author describes the level of concentration is like the audience are glued on the

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