This paper, referring to Cinéma by Gilles Deleuze, discusses the problem of the relation between the real and the imaginary, the objective and the subjective in the cinema and the “new media”.
“Classical” Hollywood movies represent the sensory-motor links between the situation and the reaction that the characters make against it. There the belief is established, as in the “natural” perception, that the objective and the subjective, the real and the imaginary are distinct from each other and that the cinematographic image is basically real and objective unless otherwise marked. This belief keeps spectators from realizing falsehood of clichés and seeing intolerable things as they are.
“Modern” movies since Neo-Realismo present memories, which are preserved in themselves, and, by making the image virtual, surpass the distinction between the real and the imaginary, the objective and the subjective. Thus disappears the belief in the reality and objectivity of the cinematographic image, and spectators see intolerable things as they are.
“New media”, on one hand, have a tendency to break down the false belief in the reality and objectivity of the image, but, on the other hand, have a tendency to intensify that belief and make it subsist in a more subtle form.
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