CINEMA IS MERE GADGETRY WITHOUT NARRATVITY HUGO MUNSTERBERG

Let’s understand fist who was Mr. Hugo Munsterberg? Hugo Munsterberg was a German – American psychologist and who was one of the scholars in psychology.  He gave a wide contribution in regards to film studies by publishing book called The Photo play: A psychological Study which was the earliest example of film theory.     The topic mainly focuses on how cinema is the film of the form. The book includes everything about picture, emotions which are at the peak level and in interest of the audience.

The film refers to the most complex relationship between all aspects including plot, character, personality, quotes, etc. It is important to say that the film and other forms of art will exist till the time its viewer or the audience depends on one another.

            There are several studies of cinema like hermeneutic which means explanatory i.e. it’s all about what the film is trying to convey, genre studies meaning finding out more about film joners. Auteur theory or importance of the director in film making, it’s the primary importance. Historical which includes film movements, comparison between film and other arts, feminist, cultural studies, post-colonial theory, cognitive theory, structuralism which includes semiotics, Marxism, psycho analysis etc.  Cinema is comparatively an art form which focuses on young people. And was a medium of illusion. Munsterberg had a central argument that film had a capacity to imitate mental state due to the various technologies, flow of images, the way our mind worlds. He also claims that the mental activities are modelled through cinemas. It moulds the objective world and takes the audience on the ride of an imaginary cinema world.

            Cinema contains aesthetics art forms wh8ich includes dance, music, theatre. Cinema or film theory has been emerged just after the silent era after knowing that films are a part to our culture. While Munsterberg showed as different kind of relationship between the theory and practise during those eras.  And was of the opinion that he did not direct any films but instead gave the audience new links about films and other emerging art forms.  He was just of the thought of showing how cinema is different from theatre and was identifying essential qualities. And he was finally succeeded in showing that film is an art or a general aesthetics which did not show reality. Film theory tends to favour one most important factor or the quality of films is that the means of creating or manipulating etc.