Cinema And Its Outside: Making A Deleuzean Sense of Moving Images

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The overall aim of the study was to develop a theoretical understanding of how films in general and the photographic image in particular alter the way we conceive of and relate to our environment. Setting of where social constructivism, Cartesian dualism and textualism ends, the essay brings forward an alternative approach to cultural experience and identity construction. With the advent of the moving photographic image, the way we relate to what is real and what is not changed dramatically. In a mediated society where the image is all around us, the distinction between what is fiction and what is not has become more or less dissolved turning real life into an object for scrutiny and disbelief. In this way the implications of the reproducible image is two-folded; it passes on as a force overcoming mental and physical space and distance, and as an alienating force creating fragmentation and increasing divisions between individuals thus altering the subject´s relation to its environment. In essence, the techniques of photographi...