The art of the moving image has thus become a total hybrid art, whose character cannot be understood without first comprehending the “pure”, unmixed arts of which it is composed. Further adding music and language, cinema now “adapts” every musical and literary form to its motion pictures. Cinema now kinetically encompasses not only the visual imagery of two-dimensional graphic art and photography, but that of architecture and sculpture, as well as that of mime and dance. With the advance of sound recording technology, motion pictures have displaced opera and musical theater as the modern world’s dominant “total” art, combining the temporal sequencing of two-dimensional images with music and the spoken and written word. Whether relying upon chemical or digital photography and video, with distribution through cinemas, television, and internet streaming, motion pictures have achieved global preeminence as the most popular and influential contemporary art. Few can deny that today motion pictures have become an art of unrivaled public attention and unrivaled mobilization of creative resources.
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