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Therefore, as we define it in
the scope of our project, globalization is nothing new,
it is just moving faster than ever before while making
use of elaborate, complex and widely distributed and
interlinked visual and textual metaphor, therefore
drawing more attention to the process through its persistent
presence in nearly every world culture.
Film as we know it now essentially
began as a documentary format and was often advertised
for its scientific possibilities and its ability to
“honestly” document real life. This promotion
of film as a semi-scientific form for careful documentation
was a concerted effort to separate the early medium
from the peek-show, vaudeville-like entertainment and
low-class venues where iits visual progenitors had mostly
been put on display.
Promoting
film as a serious component of science certainly made
it easier to raise research and development funds from
“respectable” sources and it has also endowed
the medium with an element of “truth telling”
that has never quite gone away no matter how fanciful
and fantastic films have become (Mellencamp & Rosen).
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