PT Journal AU Dvorak, T TI Distraction as the Precondition of Concetration. On the Problem of Reception in Walter Benjamin SO Iluminace PY 2003 BP 67 EP 84 VL 15 IS 4 WP https://iluminace.cz/en/artkey/ilu-200304-0006.php DE German philosopher and cultural theorist; film aesthetics; philosophy and film; film theory; film theorists; media; film audiences; perception SN 0862397X AB The essay is devoted to some of the problems concerning the relationship between the media and their audience. It is based on Walter Benjamin's study The Work of Art in the Age of its Technical Reproducibility and some of his other texts. ER