Female Workers Are Leaving the Movie Theater
Abstract
One of the first films by the Lumière brothers, Workers Leaving the Factory, contains – as in a lens – the issues discussed in the article: the camera’s relation to the life and customs of various social groups, and cinema as a way of spending free time. The text is an attempt to synthetically capture the changes in the practices of film watching – from cinematography and cinema to television and streaming – and the attitudes of viewers, the forms of their involvement in the screening, experiencing it and identifying with the presented narratives, as well as the changes in viewership accompanying the changes of cinema. It muses over Roland Barthes’ essay Leaving the Movie Theater. (Non-reviewed material).
Keywords:
Roland Barthes, magic of cinema, audience, representationReferences
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Iwona Kurzi.kurz@uw.edu.pl
University of Warsaw Poland
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7180-8670
Culture critic and historian, film expert. She deals with the history of modern Polish culture in the visual perspective, theory of visual culture, and the issues of body and gender. Recent books (co-edited and co-authored): Kultura wizualna w Polsce [Visual Culture in Poland] (2017), Ekspozycje nowoczesności. Wystawy a doświadczanie procesów modernizacyjnych w Polsce 1821-1929 [Expositions of Modernity: Exhibitions and Experiencing Modernization Processes in Poland 1821-1929] (2017) and Ślady Holokaustu w imaginarium kultury polskiej [Traces of the Holocaust in the Imaginarium of Polish Culture] (2017). She writes for Kino and Dwutygodnik.
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