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Audiences experience cinema as a form of illusion. Discuss in relation to the fact that certain films shown within this module, explore both their own materiality and the cinematic apparatus itself.

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Have a little read: ... Audiences experience cinema as a form of illusion. Discuss in relation to the fact that certain films shown within this module, explore both their own materiality and the cinematic apparatus itself. When moving image or cinema was first invented, the medium excited and intrigued audiences by its ability through manipulation by filmmakers, to create the "illusion of reality". The simple event like a train arriving at a station- lumiere brothers, was an attraction in itself as the medium of film was able to reconstruct the time and space of the real world in a darkened theatre. This convention of cinema continued within Hollywood films, where the fact that what was happening on screen was just a representation of reality was hidden as much as possible or more precisely disguised in a narrative story line which the audience could digest and except as "real". This is what the majority of us would

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