In the first chapter of Ways of Seeing by Berger, he discusses how media is continually advancing, which causes change with the ways one may recognize art. Berger explains, “Yet although every image embodies way of seeing, our perception or appreciate of an image depends also upon our own way of seeing” (Pg. 10). This […]
Scott’s article on the modern ways of viewing media in America brings to light an important failure in how we experience media today. He points out that all these modern mediums of media have distracted us from viewing said art in the way the author originally intended. How would Hitchcock feel about people watching his […]
Bree Cevaal Analysis for “Screening of America” In this article it covers how movies have slowly been decreasing over the years due to television. Back then the only way to watch a movie was to actually attend a movie theatre. But today due to new innovations movies are being played more at home, such as […]
The article “The Screening of America” is primarily about the fall of classic cinema. As home televisions and viewing systems become more and more advanced, the wonder of the movie theater has started to fade. People have started to watch movies on their cell phones, laptops, and televisions rather than on the big movie screen. Although […]
A.O. Scott made me realize how much media has changed around me. In current days it seems normal to stream a movie on Netflix while responding to an email or text and not giving the movie your undivided attention. This is not how the producer, or photographer or painter wanted the viewers to view their […]
For my first reading assignment, I read chapter one of John Berger’s “Ways of Seeing”. Throughout the chapter, Berger talks about how we choose to perceive images and why the way we do so is so important. He goes on to discuss how we choose to perceive images is a choice due to the fact […]