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Does the highlighted section of the following quote mean something like: 1. instead of focusing on what the camera sees we have to focus on the materiality of the camera in time and space and instead of focusing on what the audience see we have to focus on dialectics or 2. we have to free the focus of the camera from its own materiality in time and space and the focus of the audience from dialectics ?

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... it is cogently argued by Laura Mulvey in ‘Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema’ that the destruction of beauty and analysis are required to sever our unreflective narcissistic identifications with, in her case, the film image. She says, ‘[t]he first blow against the monolithic accumulation of traditional film conventions [...] is to free the look of the camera into its materiality in time and space and the look of the audience into dialectics, passionate detachment (Art and Psychoanalysis by Maria Walsh).?
  

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Your ellipsis falls right where the grammar gets decided. It is hard to tell whether the obscurity of the sentence is due to that or to the writer's mental state, but playing it as it lies, "to free the look of something into something " is a structure with which I am not familiar (read "nonsense"). I also can't see how the first blow can be two separate things.

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  • Your ellipsis falls right where the grammar gets decided.
  • It is hard to tell whether the obscurity of the sentence is due to that or to the writer's mental state, but playing it as it lies, "to free the look of something into something " is a structure with which I am not familiar (read "nonsense").
  • I also can't see how the first blow can be two separate things.
  • On first reading, I thought I had it, and she meant that the appearance of the movie has to make it clear that you are seeing a recording made with a camera, and you have to educate the audience.
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Your ellipsis falls right where the grammar gets decided. It is hard to tell whether the obscurity of the sentence is due to that or to the writer's mental state, but playing it as it lies, "to free the look of something into something" is a structure with which I am not familiar (read "nonsense"). I also can't see how the first blow can be two separate things. On first reading,

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