Walter Benjamin and Siegfrizd Kracauer characterize an aspect of film as a distraction' and both men have different ideas on what they mean by distraction but also have many similarities. Their essays The Mass Ornament, Hotel Lobby, Cult of Distraction and The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction all discuss their views on distraction and how cinematic capacities capture certain aspects of modernity.' Modern life was a life that was feared by the people it was fast changing and hard to adapt to, and with that came many accidents and it was shown through many devices including film.
In Walter Benjamin's The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, Benjamin feels that distraction' had many "meanings" when it came to the masses. Benjamin thought distraction caused a decline in middle class society, Benjamin who felt that capitalism was due to changing modern times, saw film as a medium that was a distraction on the modern world and it was training......
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