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“Cinema of attractions” as defined by Tom Gunning is cinema less as
A way 0f telling stories than as a way of presenting views to an
Audience fascinating because of their illusory power.
Gunning has explained that early cinema involved an “aesthetic of
Attractions” in which visual curiosity was aroused and satisfied by
Novelty, surprise even shock. ... In this case early cinema were
universal.
More over, early films generally were comprised of a single,
autonomous tableau or a serious of tableaux or ‘scenes’, frontally
framed and often static, as in photographs or on the theatre stage.
This essay will attempt to break the film into parts to attempt to show
the style and form of early cinema and back Gunning’s theory of
“cinema of attractions”. ... But the camera does
one impressive pan that we have not seen in any early films. ...
In one of the fourteen scenes, there is a dance scene which can be a
good example of Tom Gunning’s “Cinema of attraction”. ...
In conclusion, early cinema was
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