| Description |
1 online resource (vi, 228 pages) |
| Contents |
Displaced vision : the politics of realism in Kracauer and Kluge -- The rhetoric of madness in realist film theory -- Phenomenology, theology and 'physical reality' : the film theory realism of Siegfried Kracauer -- 'Montage, my fine care' : realism, surrealism and postmodernism after Bazin -- Multiple indexicality and multiple realism in Andre Bazin -- André Bazin, or the ambiguity of reality -- Realism is to think historically : overlapping elements in Lukácsian and Brechtian theories of realism -- The moving-image redemption of orality and Lukács's early writing on the cinema -- The 'naturalist' treatment in The specificity of the aesthetics (Georg Lukács, 1963) and One day in the life of Ivan Denisovich (Alexander Solzhenitsyn, 1962; Caspar Wrede, 1970) -- The documentary version of film history -- The Grierson testament, 1969-71 -- John Grierson : from the poster movement to the international state |
| Summary |
A critical re-examination of four major realist film theorists. From the 1910s to the emergence of structuralism and post-structuralism in the 1960s, the writings of John Grierson, Siegfried Kracauer, AndrÃ♭ Bazin and Georg LukÃŁcs dominated realist film theory. In this critical anthology, the first collection to address their work in one volume, a wide range of international scholars explore the interconnections between their ideas and help generate new understandings of this important, if neglected, field. Challenging preconceptions about 'classical' theory and the nature of realist representation, and in the process demonstrating how this body of work can be seen as a cohesive theoretical model, this invaluable collection will help return the realist paradigm of film theory to the forefront of academic enquiry. Contributors include. Ian Aitken, Hong Kong Baptist University Scott Anthony, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Gary Evans, University of Ottawa Tara Forrest, University of Technology, Sydney Ramona Fotiade, University of Glasgow Angelos Koutsourakis, University of Queensland Henry K. Miller, Cambridge University Seung-hoon Jeong, New York University, Abu Dhabi Pierre Sorlin, Sorbonne University, Paris Temenuga Trifonova, York University, Toronto Tyson Wils, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia Xu Yaping, China University of Political Science and Law |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Motion pictures -- Philosophy -- History
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- Reference.
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Motion pictures -- Philosophy
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Aitken, Ian, editor
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| ISBN |
9781474402224 |
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1474402224 |
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