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 | | PART II THE ESTHETICS OF THE PHOTOPLAY CHAPTER VII THE PURPOSE OF ART We have analyzed the mental functions which are most powerful in the audience of the photoplay. |
 | | The suffering of the poor, the injustice by which the weak may be forced into the path of crime, and a hundred other social motives may be impressed on us by the photoplay; thoughts about human society, about laws and reforms, about human differences and human fates, may fill our mind. |
 | | If we disregard this pleasure or displeasure in the beauty of the photoplay and reflect only on the processes of perception, attention, interest, memory, imagination, suggestion, and emotion which we have analyzed, we see that we everywhere come to the same result. |
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