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The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction

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Uploaded by on Apr 4, 2010

My interpretation of the first half of Chapter 15 of Walter Benjamin's 1935 critical cultural essay "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction" focuses on Benjamin's belief in the advent of film as a way for people to break the "aura" of special uniqueness and reverence previously connected with artworks, as film was a genre available for the masses and open for exploration. copyright 2009 John A. Gietl

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  • Thank you for your technological reproductive presentation on W.B's views on film and art. We are a bunch of 'numbnuts' gietmeister. I learned all my social values from the non participatory mode of film. I remember a scene in a film of a woman painting outside in a white blouse and pants and there lies my aspirations.

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