Reality

Order Description

Siegried Kracauer – “Basic Concepts,” 147-158; “The Establishment of Physical Existence,” 262-272
Stanly Cavell – “Photograph and Screen,” “Audience, Actor, and Star,” “Types; Cycles and Genres,” and “Ideas of Origin,” 304-314
Walter Benjamin – The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction,” 665-685
Jonathan Crary – “Modernity and the Problem of the Observer,” 1-24 Techniques of the Observer
all posit, in their own way, the location and nature of reality. Of the four authors listed above, choose three and carefully compare and contrast their views on reality. Make sure to reference specific passages to make your argument.

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