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Kracauer argued that an aesthetic medium must build from its basic
'properties', 'affinities' and 'appeals'. The basic property of film is
34 Kracauer. Theory of Film, p. 28. its capacity for 'recording' and 'revealing' physical reality.34 The
basic affinity of film is, as previously mentioned, for representing
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Kracauer rejected the notion that film was 'an art medium in the
accepted sense', and, because of this, was both critical of French
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1 3 8 39:2 Summer 1998 Ian Aitken Distraction and redemption: Kracauer. surrealism and ohenomenology
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