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Language

"#1. In order correctly to define art, it is necessary, first of all, to cease to consider it as a means to pleasure and to consider it as one of the conditions of human life. Viewing it in this way we cannot fail to observe that art is one of the means of intercourse between man and man." Tolstoy, Chapter 5. Sender --> Medium --> Reciever

Basic Communication Model

The message can't be recieved without forming it one way of another (code). Both, sender and reciever must know the code to DECODE the masses.

Since the focus of this course is cinema, we are talking about film language. Aristotle considered language under texture (principle #4).

Film = Theatre + Art + Music

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