Brandon Raciti

[Brandon Raciti @braciti57]

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[Brandon Raciti @braciti57]

@Nath_burn Peters' emphasis on there being a relatively silent part to communication. Body language and such as a type of dialogue has been really interesting. Also, ghosts. Talking to ghosts would be pretty cool. Our readings on cinema have been pretty enlightening as well. #comm106

[Brandon Raciti @braciti57]

@kevsandy98 Agreed. But on the other hand, it's almost too detailed. It feels more like Herschel had been on the moon, rather than observe it through a telescope. I imagine the people would've been used to the heavily detailed prose. Perhaps they believed it because they wanted to. #comm106

[Brandon Raciti @braciti57]

James Agee's Let Us Now Praise Famous Men is a great read. It's a struggle between prose and photography. Agee, with his modernist prose style and never-ending sentences, presents writing as inherently subjective. He prefaces, "If I could do it, I'd do no writing here."#comm106

[Brandon Raciti @braciti57]

Going off that bodiless communication -- I wonder if silence can be its own form of communication. A sort of John Cage thing. If the relationship one has with one's dog is actually ideal: where there's a sort of silent understanding, an unselfconscious love. #comm106

[Brandon Raciti @braciti57]

@ankcomm106 And perhaps even more so, Studio Ghibli!

[Brandon Raciti @braciti57]

For me, Tomlinson really highlighted the relative disconnect between critic and consumer. This seems even more prevalent in literature courses. Or at least, the way one focuses so much on finding meaning or metaphor. And less on the actual experience of reading. #comm106

[Brandon Raciti @braciti57]

Paul Thomas Anderson is known for his long, single-shot close-ups of characters. They are subtle peeks into a character's head: i.e. there's more said through their facial tics and the camera's lingering presence, than the character's dialogue. #comm106
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[Brandon Raciti @braciti57]

@emily_rivito Yeah, I think sound, music especially, plays a big part in it. More senses are being addressed, but it's much easier to fall into and feel immersed (and takes less effort too). #comm106

[Brandon Raciti @braciti57]

DFW's gargantuan novel, Infinite Jest, sort of takes the last line of Miller's piece (TV as a drug) and actualizes it. The novel is an abashment against irony, and focuses heavily on sincerity. Here he is talking about it a little: https://t.co/bZ1SOcEidb #comm106

[Brandon Raciti @braciti57]

Ernst Lubitsch was the master at manipulating the Hays rules through subtlety and implication (so much so, that it became known as the Lubitsch Touch). Check out these small snippets from his film, Design for Living: https://t.co/uGATzD5gQV #comm106

[Brandon Raciti @braciti57]

@timr100 Yes! Looking forward to it. Too bad we're not reading Wallace's own "E Unibus Pluram" (or sections from Infinite Jest!).

[Brandon Raciti @braciti57]

"The stuff that makes no attempt to do anything artistic is so profoundly soothing. Artwise maybe not the greatest art, but the function it provides is deep in a certain way. Some art finds a way to take care of you despite itself." - David Foster Wallace on "cheap" film #comm106

[Brandon Raciti @braciti57]

I agree with Schudson that the media doesn't directly address an individual. Yet, through their use of the 2nd person, they seemingly give the illusion of personability, which may increase their influence. E.g. the "It's 10PM. Do you know where your children are?" PSA.#comm106

[Brandon Raciti @braciti57]

"Torch-bearing revelers in New York got so carried away that City Hall was accidentally set on fire." This probably should've been a not-so-subtle sign that a telegraph line wouldn't fix issues that had to do more with personality than a lack of communication. #comm106

[Brandon Raciti @braciti57]

@kevsandy98 Agreed. Perhaps the ironic thing is though, the internet lead to increased isolation. Or rather, while it can connect us people around the world, we're still aware that it's a kind of artificial connection. That there's a discrepancy between the internet and real life. #comm106

[Brandon Raciti @braciti57]

It seems that Habermas assumes everyone in a public sphere is a well spoken debater and arguer. If we assume that an ideal public sphere existed and followed Habermas' criteria, would that account for shyness or fear or the anxiety that often accompanies public speaking? #comm106

[Brandon Raciti @braciti57]

In comparison to prose, the idea that photography acts a talisman, a stylistic and nostalgic escape from reality, is pretty interesting. It certainly feels like prose is always trying to replicate reality, to replicate emotion. Photography takes it a step further. #comm106

[Brandon Raciti @braciti57]

Full article:https://t.co/TSpAqHGavY. It seems like Berger focuses on the way paintings can freeze time, like that still gaze. That paintings have difficulty capturing the subjective/objective/subjective flow of real life nudity. Yet cinema is still driven by desire.#comm106

[Brandon Raciti @braciti57]

"The female body comes into focus at the very site of cinema's invention, and we may...see the philosophical toy we know as the cinema as marked in the very moment of its invention by the inscription of desire" -- Annette Michelson, an avant-garde film critic #comm106 (1/2).