O destronamento da aura e a mutação da percepção na era da arte pós-aurática em Walter Benjamin

This article aims to analyze two well-known issues in the Benjaminian studies: the decline of the aura in the age of art reproduction and the changes in the individuals perception with regard to the post-auratic works of art. In order to address these issues, we will make inroads into the second version of the essay “The work of art in the age of its technological reproducibility” in search for Benjamin’s considerations about cinema, the non-auratic form of art par excellence, and at the same time, with the purpose of enhancing the debate over the subject, we intend to ponder upon Eisenstein’s Russian film, which considers that the function of the film is to impact the spectator’s perception. Both Eisenstein and Benjamin share the same idea of the revolutionary potential of film.