When thought becomes no more than unspoken speech, fiction's gleaming reputation as a mirror of human consciousness will inevitably begin to tarnish.
In short, the notion of directing in the modern cinema has changed; the new freedoms of which directors partake are actually the old freedoms, reflected in the mirror of self-consciousness and exhibited in a self-aware display of style.
Despite his formidable record at communicating emotion, Taylor chooses his words with an almost professorial deliberateness, inflected by quick backward looks in the rearview mirror of self-consciousness — his style is equal parts self-mocking, cosmic, and precise.
Through April 20 Mary Lucier's video projection "Wisconsin Arc," the main attraction of her show, is a beguiling meditation on vision and on video itself as a mirror of perception and consciousness.
Well, in the teensiest nutshell, "The Sopranos" served as a kind of mirror of the national consciousness, and Mr. Gandolfini, in the role of Tony Soprano, as a symbol of contorted morality and middle-class aspiration.
Everyone sees the world through his or her own eyes but the look in the mirror seeks the mystery of consciousness itself, and fixing it in self-portraiture has an exalted role in artistic modernity.
By doing so, they refuse to be toadies to theory or to be fun-house mirrors of self-consciousness".
A mirror on the floor projects a stream-of-consciousness flood of text onto the ceiling, flowing like the frantic ramblings of a brain that can't get to bed.
Just like examining our body in front of the mirror, our consciousness observes our physical presence and it's able to heal and nourish it.
It is more valued by our culture, which finds in it a mirror of our own self-consciousness, than the icons that obsessed an earlier age.
