Jean louis baudry biography of christopher columbus

Jean Louis Baudry

Ideological Effects of the Basic Cinematographic Apparatus

“In such a way, the cinematic apparatus conceals its work and imposes an idealist ideology, rather than producing critical awareness in a spectator.”

Baudry sets up the questions he will answer throughout the rest of the text:

• How the “subject” is the active center of meaning.
• How the cinematic apparatus is actually more important for transcendentalism in the subject than the film itself.
• The hidden “work” of the cinematic apparatus, that is, the progression from the “objective reality” (what is filmed), through the intermediary (the camera), to the finished product (a reconstructed, but false, “objective reality”, not the “objective reality” itself, but instead a representation of it)

Baudry then discusses this “work”.

This, he claims, is what distinguishes cinema as an art form. This process of transformation from “objective reality” to finished product. He asks, in this finis