5. Film and Phil: Bazin on Theater vs. Film - clip of rear window

Some open considerations of Bazin.  Long excursus on lumping vs. splitting.  A spiel I liked about truth-makers (as in Armstrong, and Davidson, just to give a couple of references.  Davidson's Tarski-style idea: if a sentence is true, there is something that makes it true).  All claims that A=B, if not tautological, are not strictly speaking true.  They need to be made true.  What makes something true if you lump: A and B are the same.  What makes something true if you split: A isn't really A.  Lumping: A is something else that is not A.  Splitting: A is not A.  Application to Film vs. Theater vs. verbal narrative vs.... TV.  Rear Window as emblematizing TV-watching.  Bazin on identification and resistance to identification in film and theater respectively.  Subjective camera in Rear Window.