Sunday, January 24, 2021

Remediation and Attractions


This is Georges Méliès' Le voyage dans la lune/A Trip to the Moon with a soundtrack by the French group AIR. Méliès is already moving towards the prerogatives ofnarrative here, innovating a number of specific cinematic narrative devices (dissolves and linear time) however, the elements of the cinema of attractions are still very much present here.

Below a direct quote of the film by The Smashing Pumpkins in the Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris directed video for "Tonight, Tonight" (1996)


The Cinema of Attractions Films: Playlist


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