Why do we call cinema The Seventh Art? Why not sixth or fifth?
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Hegel first classified five arts in Lectures on Aesthetics:
In 1911, Ricciotto Canudo wrote The Birth of the Sixth Art arguing that Cinema was #6; later he redefined dance as #6, making cinema the seventh art. The term is much more common in French than in English today. |
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