Adorno on Film and Reality

April 18, 2007

"Since the abrupt introduction of the sound film, mechanical duplication has become entirely subservient to this objective. According to this tendency, life is to be made indistinguishable from the sound film. Far more strongly than the theatre of illusion, film denies its audience any dimension in which they might roam freely in imagination - contained by the film's framwork but unsupervised by its precise actualities - without losing the thread; thus it trains those exposed to it to identify film directly with reality [...] The required qualities of attention have become so familiar from other films and other culture products altready known to him or her that they appear automatically." (45)

Adorno, Theodor. Culture Industry (Routledge Classics) (Routledge Classics). Routledge, 2001.

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