UCI Week 1 Cinema as Window and Frame Discussion

Respond to the questions below after reading:

• Thomas Elsaesser, Malte Hagener. “Cinema as Window and Frame.”
• André Bazin, “Ontology of the Photographic Image,” “Painting and Cinema.”
• week film: Rear Window (Hitckcock, 1954)

• Questions:

1. What are the authors’ main arguments?
2. How do the texts dialogue with one another?
3. How did they change your understanding of the act of watching films?
4. Your comment about something that stood out to you, or that you’d like more explanation on.