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I don't understand this quote. Can anyone help me understand it?

I have no idea what exactly this quote is trying to say. To give it some context, i'm doing an essay on realism and the different ways that its used in City of God. I hope someone out there can help.

Cinematic realism is viewed as a discourse coded for transparency such that the indexicality of photo-graphic realism is replaced by a view of the “reality-effect” produced by codes and discourse.
Haha, postmodern bollox at its finest.

http://www.pixmaven.com/phrase_generator.html

It's meaningless. Unless the writer wants to rewrite this in an intelligible way, they are being deliberately unhelpful.

Is this a real example: is there a source?
Original post by Matt00606
I have no idea what exactly this quote is trying to say. To give it some context, i'm doing an essay on realism and the different ways that its used in City of God. I hope someone out there can help.

Cinematic realism is viewed as a discourse coded for transparency such that the indexicality of photo-graphic realism is replaced by a view of the “reality-effect” produced by codes and discourse.


Bin the writer
i agree with chazwomaq's analysis.... i did not understand the sentence. the individual words were OK, but they linked together to make an unintelligible rete non-mirabile.
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Original post by chazwomaq
Is this a real example: is there a source?


https://vdocuments.net/true-lies-stephen-prince.html

Edit: JSTOR link instead http://www.jstor.org/stable/1213468

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(edited 5 years ago)
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Original post by chazwomaq
Haha, postmodern bollox at its finest.

http://www.pixmaven.com/phrase_generator.html

It's meaningless. Unless the writer wants to rewrite this in an intelligible way, they are being deliberately unhelpful.

Is this a real example: is there a source?


Yeah there is a source its the University of California Press. And yeah I think they are just being deliberately unhelpful.

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