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P11: The art of creating suspense is also the art of involving the audience, so that the viewer is actually a participant in the film.In this area of the spectacle, film-making is not a dual interplay between the director and his picture, but a three-way game in which the audience, too, is required to play. [create symbolic knowledge, then the intersubjective network; we are all participants] ->P15 Consciously or not, this is their way of helping us to understand ourselves, which is, afterall, a fundamental purpose of any work of art. | P11: The art of creating suspense is also the art of involving the audience, so that the viewer is actually a participant in the film.In this area of the spectacle, film-making is not a dual interplay between the director and his picture, but a three-way game in which the audience, too, is required to play. [create symbolic knowledge, then the intersubjective network; we are all participants] ->P15 Consciously or not, this is their way of helping us to understand ourselves, which is, afterall, a fundamental purpose of any work of art.<br> | ||
p98 MacGuffin -> pretext, device, gimmick if you will.<br> | |||
Most of Kipling's stories(Rudyard Kipling, 1865-1936), as you know were set in India, and they dealt with the fighting between the natives and the British forces on the Afghanistan border. Many of them were spy stories and they were concerned with the efforts to steal documents was the original MacGuffin. So the "MacGuffin" is the term we use to cover all that sort of things: to steal plans or documents, or discover a secret, it doesn't matter what it is. The only thing that really matters is that in the picture the plans, documents, or secrets must seem to be of vital importance to the characters. | |||
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