The major realist film theorists : a critical anthology / edited by Ian Aitken.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Aitken, Ian, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures--Philosophy--History.

Motion pictures.

Motion pictures--Philosophy.

History.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

vi, 228 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2016]

Summary:

From the 1910s to the emergence of structuralism and post-structuralism in the 1960s, the writings of John Grierson, Siegfried Kracauer, André Bazin and Georg Lukács 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 helps to return the realist paradigm of film theory to the forefront of academic enquiry. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Displaced Vision: The Politics of Realism in Kracauer and Kluge / Tara Forrest Forrest, Tara 41

2 The Rhetoric of Madness in Realist Film Theory / Temenuga Trifonova Trifonova, Temenuga 53

3 Phenomenology, Theology and 'Physical Reality': The Film Theory Realism of Siegfried Kracauer / Tyson Wils Wils, Tyson 67

4 'Montage, My Fine Care': Realism, Surrealism and Postmodernism after Bazin / Ramona Fotiade Fotiade, Ramona 81

5 Multiple Indexicality and Multiple Realism in André Bazin / Seung-hoon Jeong Jeong, Seung-hoon 94

6 André Bazin, or the Ambiguity of Reality / Pierre Sorlin Sorlin, Pierre 110

7 Realism is to Think Historically: Overlapping Elements in Lukácsian and Brechtian Theories of Realism / Angelas Koutsourakis Koutsourakis, Angelas 123

8 The Moving-image Redemption of Orality and Lukács's early Writing on the Cinema / Apple Xu Yaping Yaping, Apple Xu 139

9 The 'Naturalist' Treatment of Film in The Specificity of the Aesthetic (Georg Lukács, 1963) and One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Alexander Solzhenitsyn, 1962; Caspar Wrede, 1970) / Ian Aitken Aitken, Ian 156

10 The Documentary Version of Film History / Henry K. Miller Miller, Henry K. 172

11 The Grierson Testament, 1969-71 / Gary Evans Evans, Gary 187

12 John Grierson: From the Poster Movement to the Informational State / Scott Anthony Anthony, Scott 203.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781474402217

1474402216

OCLC:

936009569