Self-study
The following passage is adapted from a 2001 article by a film historian.
P1
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Question ·
Which works of art should be shown together?
Answer 1 ·
Group art according to artist
E.g. Rembrandt paintings
Answer 2 ·
Group art according to theme/period
E.g., Modernist art
Similarity ·
Both answers use common characteristics to group art togther
Analogy ·
Film retrospectives are like art exhibits
Similar works of film are grouped by a common feature and screened together
narrowing topic ·
Early nonfiction film retrospectives
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Main point / author's criticism ·
Early films shouldn't be grouped by similarity
Premise: such films were never originally shown this way
Support criticism ·
Original format for screening films
Author gives more detail: instead of grouping similar films together, cinemas originally showed different films together in "mixed program"
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target of criticism ·
Film archives and retrospective festivals
Their priority is to showcase how films supposedly originally looked; author implies this shouldn't be sole priority
support criticism ·
Authenticity in how films were originally grouped is important
Screening films in mixed-program format adds context and improves viewing experience
clarify main point ·
Exhibition of early films shouldn't ignore the context in which they were originally viewed
Passage Style
Problem-analysis
Single position
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The author never suggests that director’s cuts are motivated by marketing or that they have no artistic value. He just thinks that there’s more to authenticity than simply restoring films as directors’ cuts.
b
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The author never suggests that directors’ cuts can never meet their goal. As far as we can tell, the goal is restore films “as they supposedly were when originally produced.” The author doesn’t consider whether or not that goal is achievable.
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The author never suggests any opinion on how authentic directors’ cuts actually are. He just thinks that there’s more to authenticity than simply restoring films as directors’ cuts.
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The author says these cuts are presented as “authentic” because they’re accurate restorations of the films themselves. But he thinks that when talking about authenticity, we need to consider not just the films themselves, but the context in which they were watched. The point of the passage is that this context is extremely important. So he’d likely agree that if we don’t pay attention to context, the effort to create an “authentic” director’s cut won’t succeed at conveying that film in an authentic way.
e
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The author doesn’t suggest whether directors’ cuts are a better way to experience films.