Technologies: Transformations In Audiences’ Perception Of Media

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1. In “The Mass Production of the Senses,” Miriam Hansen describes the significant connection between film and modernity. She writes: It was not just what these films showed, what they brought into optical consciousness, as it were, but the way they opened up hitherto unperceived modes of sensory perception and experience, their ability to suggest a different organization of the daily world.

According to ONE of the texts that we have read (Wolfgang Schivelbusch, Walter Benjamin, Tom Gunning, Benedict Anderson, Karl Marx, or Miriam Hansen), what are the specific transformations in experience (and modes of sensory perception) that film (and/or technology) introduces? And how are they linked to the different definitions or characteristics of modernity that your author describes. Please choose ONE of the films that we have watched: Modern Times, Eureka, or Dreams Rewired and consider how that film both shows and embodies (or opens up) the transformations associated with modernity that your author describes (the Mass Character of Experience, New Horizon of the Public, Movement, Shock, Uncertainty, the organization of Time, Speed among others). Please include THREE quotations from the author of the article that you are referring to and describe at least TWO specific examples from scenes that su