PARASOCIALIZE

A term or concept · 1939 · Cinema

The protagonist is a parasocial object

The first-person film, the subjective shot, the character who exists to be looked through rather than at.

Application

A technical innovation that produced a psychological one. Putting the camera inside somebody's eyes makes the audience's position structurally identical to the character's, which is the whole friendship with a film in one device.

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