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transcending cinema as the art of mass culture
a movement towards a process of disembodiment, generating reality that
we can label as “virtual”. However, the labelling does not destroy its attrib-
utes of reality. Briefly: welcome to the world of simulacrum in the Deleuz-
ian version. The “historic cinema” which still renders both the terminolo-
gy on the level of ordinary language as well as on the level of film theory or
aesthetics, now becomes truly the embodiment of memory, which becomes
increasingly accessible mainly through digital media.
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a movement towards a process of disembodiment, generating reality that
we can label as “virtual”. However, the labelling does not destroy its attrib-
utes of reality. Briefly: welcome to the world of simulacrum in the Deleuz-
ian version. The “historic cinema” which still renders both the terminolo-
gy on the level of ordinary language as well as on the level of film theory or
aesthetics, now becomes truly the embodiment of memory, which becomes
increasingly accessible mainly through digital media.
193
