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Discuss critically the claim that films cannot be serious works of art.
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Discuss critically the claim that films cannot be serious works of art. The Oxford English dictionary defines art as, 'production of something beautiful; skill or ability; paintings or sculptures etc; subjects other than sciences requiring sensitive understanding rather than use of measurement;' On further examination of the word art in a thesaurus it suggests other descriptions as 'painting or sculpture'. As you will already see there is no mention of the word film or filmmaker in either of these descriptions. However the Oxford dictionary's analysis that art can be defined as something beautiful, a skill or ability or something requiring sensitive understanding does help in arguing that film's and film making is the greatest art form of the modern era. In it's most basic form films are simply photographic pictures imprinted on celluloid projected on to a screen but films are also a form of expression that can not only entertain...
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