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mass ornament: a standalone construct

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Film studies

spectacles of precise, abstract patterns made from human bodies, read as the aesthetic expression of capitalist rationalization.

In film studies, mass ornament refers to spectacles of precise, abstract patterns made from human bodies, read as the aesthetic expression of capitalist rationalization. This meaning comes from Kracauer (1995) in The mass ornament.[1]

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References

  1. Kracauer, S. (1995). The mass ornament. Harvard University Press. ISBN 9780674551626

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