Photoplay and Film Philosophy in Cinema

Photoplay and Film Philosophy in Cinema

… “The photoplay tells us the human story by overcoming the forms of the outer world, namely space-time and causality and by adjusting the events to the forms of the inner world, namely attention, memory, imagination, and emotion.” …. (Defining the Photoplay, p. 44)

The quote is from Munsterberg Hugo’s work on Film Formalism. The quote alludes that through a photoplay the human mind can perform several activities as it interacts with the photoplay. Through observation of a photoplay, it displays the inner activity of the human mind. The photoplay means pictures that are in motion. When the real-time pictures are moving, the audience’s mind feels that the pictures are not a representation of…